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Ohio Enacts Cybersecurity Safe Harbor Law

September 20, 2018 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Ohio recently enacted the Ohio Data Protection Act (2018 SB 220), a law that offers a breach litigation safe harbor to businesses meeting specific cybersecurity standards. While the law does not prevent a plaintiff from filing a lawsuit following a data breach, it does provide an affirmative defense to companies defending themselves against such claims. […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Breach Tagged With: Safe Harbor

EU-US Privacy Shield – FAQs

July 12, 2016 By Daniel Felz and Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Today, the European Commission (“EU Commission”) formally approved a new transatlantic framework for the transfer of personal data from Europe to the United States (“U.S.”) (the “Privacy Shield”). Under the EU Commission’s decision approving the new framework ( the “Adequacy Decision”), U.S. organizations participating in the Privacy Shield will be deemed to ensure an “adequate […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, International, Privacy, Privacy Shield Tagged With: EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, European Court of Justice, European Union (EU), Max Schrems Decision, Safe Harbor

EU Institutions Weigh In on Commission’s EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Proposal

June 6, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Last week has seen two important developments in relation to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (“Privacy Shield”) for transfers of personal information from Europe to the United States. A draft adequacy decision and related documentation for the Privacy Shield were released by the EU Commission on February 29, 2016, and are now being reviewed by the […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, International, Privacy, Privacy Shield Tagged With: EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, European Court of Justice, European Union (EU), Max Schrems Decision, Privacy Shield, Safe Harbor, Safe Harbor 2.0

Germany’s Christmas Present: Data-Protection Class Actions

January 6, 2016 By Daniel Felz

Following the European Court of Justice’s Schrems decision invalidating the Safe Harbor mechanism, much attention has focused on how the Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) of EU member states would interpret and enforce Schrems. While close attention to DPA activity is important—and will become even more so upon the passage of the EU General Data Protection […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Enforcement, International Tagged With: Class Action, EU Data Protection, European Union (EU), Safe Harbor

Senior Counsel Peter Swire to Debate European Privacy Activist Max Schrems

January 5, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Peter Swire, Alston & Bird Senior Counsel and Huang Professor of Law and Ethics at the Georgia Institute of Technology Scheller College of Business, will debate privacy activist Max Schrems on January 26, 2015 in Brussels, Belgium.  The event, sponsored by the Brussels Privacy Hub at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, will take place at the […]

Filed Under: Events, International, Privacy, Privacy Policy Tagged With: EU Privacy, European Court of Justice, Safe Harbor

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