On July 17, the European Commission (the “Commission”) announced that the European Union and Japan successfully concluded talks on reciprocal adequacy and agreed to recognize each other's data protection systems as equivalent. In its press release, … [Read more] about Japan and EU agree on Terms of Reciprocal Adequacy for Data Transfers
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently issued its opinion in LabMD, Inc. v. FTC, No. 16-16270 (11th Cir. June 6, 2018), declaring unenforceable a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) order requiring LabMD to implement an … [Read more] about LabMD: The End of the FTC in Cyber or Just a New Path?
On the heels of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs’ (LIBE) recent resolution, the full European Parliament on July 5 adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement if the U.S. fails to … [Read more] about European Parliament Calls to Suspend Privacy Shield
Following our June 4 and July 2, 2018 blog posts tracking California's November 2018 ballot measure turned hastily enacted new California privacy law titled The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), Alston & Bird's Privacy & Data … [Read more] about Landmark New Privacy Law in California to Challenge Businesses Nationwide
As discussed in this blog’s June 4, 2018 blog post, a group called Californians for Consumer Privacy gathered enough signatures for a new measure called the Consumer Right to Privacy Act to qualify for the November 2018 ballot. With momentum … [Read more] about California Approves the California Consumer Privacy Act in Response to Consumer Privacy Ballot Initiative