On March 18, 2025, the European Commission proposed to extend its adequacy decision in favor of the United Kingdom (‘UK’) for an additional six-month period. This would allow free flows of personal data from the EU to the UK to continue until December 2025. The existing adequacy decision – which was adopted in 2021 in […]
GDPR
EDPB Adopts Opinion on the Use of Processors and Sub-processors
On October 7, 2024, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) adopted an opinion on obligations following from the use of processors and sub-processors (the “Opinion”). The EDPB is the body that seeks to ensure harmonised application of the EU GDPR across the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and is comprised of the heads of the data […]
EU Data Protection Regulators Publish Additional Guidance On The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework
Last month, the European Data Protection Board – which is composed of the national data protection authorities (‘Supervisory Authorities’) of the countries in the European Economic Area (‘EEA’), as well as the European Data Protection Supervisor (‘EDPS’) – adopted two Frequently Asked Questions (‘FAQ’) documents concerning the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (‘DPF’), aimed at providing […]
EDPB Issues Draft Guidelines on the Calculation of Administrative Fines
On May 16, 2022, the European Data Protection Board (‘EDPB’) published draft regulatory guidelines (‘draft guidance’) on the calculation of administrative fines for infringements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’). In the draft guidance, the EDPB sets out its methodology, consisting of five steps, for calculating administrative fines. The EDPB adopted these guidelines […]
The GDPR Reaches the US Supreme Court in Cert Petition
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been raised in a petition for certiorari before the US Supreme Court, apparently for the first time since the GDPR entered into application in 2018. A party in Vesuvius USA Corp. v. Phillips has filed a petition for certiorari in a GDPR-related discovery dispute. Of course, since […]