Tag Archives: European Commission

European Authorities Release Back-to-Back Drafts Addressing Cross-Border Data Transfers

Photo of Melinda L. McLellanPhoto of Nichole SterlingBy Melinda L. McLellan and Nichole Sterling on Posted in EU, GDPR
Last week, both the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Commission released highly anticipated draft documents offering guidance to organizations that engage in cross-border data transfers involving EU personal data. The EDPB, an independent body responsible for consistent application of data protection rules throughout the EU, published draft recommendations on supplemental measures for transfer … Continue Reading

EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework Joint Annual Review 2.0

By David M. Brown on Posted in Enforcement, International Privacy Law
As we previously reported here, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced several enforcement actions in late 2017, on the eve of the first annual joint EU-U.S. review of the Privacy Shield Framework. Now the second annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework is underway, and the FTC has announced several new enforcement actions, which … Continue Reading

Privacy Shield Update: Ahead of First Joint Review, Europeans Remain Skeptical as FTC Announces Enforcement Actions

Photo of Melinda L. McLellanBy Melinda L. McLellan and Emily R. Fedeles on Posted in Enforcement, International Privacy Law
On September 8, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced enforcement actions against three companies alleged to have falsely claimed participation in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. The move follows several months of uncertainty surrounding the Framework’s future as EU officials and privacy advocates have questioned its efficacy and validity in the run-up to the … Continue Reading

Privacy Rights Group Files First Legal Challenge to EU-U.S. Privacy Shield

Photo of Melinda L. McLellanBy Melinda L. McLellan and Emily R. Fedeles on Posted in International Privacy Law
Digital Rights Ireland, an Irish privacy advocacy group, has filed the first legal challenge to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, the Trans-Atlantic agreement reached earlier this year to permit the lawful transfer of personal data from the European Union to the United States. The Privacy Shield was formally adopted on July 12, 2016, by the European … Continue Reading

Privacy Shield Developments and UK Data Transfers Post-Brexit

Photo of Melinda L. McLellanBy Melinda L. McLellan and Jenna N. Felz on Posted in International Privacy Law
With the UK’s Brexit referendum dominating the news out of Europe over the past week, it may have been easy to miss a key development in the continuing Privacy Shield negotiations. On Friday, June 24, news outlets reported that U.S. regulators and the European Commission had agreed on a finalized version from the Privacy Shield, a proposed … Continue Reading

Companies Face Uncertainty as Privacy Shield Encounters New Hurdles

Photo of Melinda L. McLellanBy Melinda L. McLellan and Jenna N. Felz on Posted in International Privacy Law
The Privacy Shield, proposed this past February and greeted with cautious optimism by European and U.S. regulators alike as a more robust “replacement” for the invalidated Safe Harbor framework, appears to be suffering death by a thousand paper cuts. Today’s European Parliament resolution (the “Resolution”) delivered the latest blow. The Resolution recommends that the European … Continue Reading

Safe Harbor Is Dead, Long Live Standard Contractual Clauses?

Photo of Melinda L. McLellanBy Melinda L. McLellan and William W. Hellmuth on Posted in Enforcement, International Privacy Law
For the past 15 years, the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor Framework has been one of the most popular data transfer mechanisms for organizations that engage in cross-border transfers of EU personal data to the United States. In the aftermath of the recent invalidation of the Safe Harbor Framework by the Court of Justice of the European … Continue Reading

International Privacy – 2013 Year in Review – European Union

Photo of BakerHostetlerBy BakerHostetler on Posted in International Privacy Law
Authors: Gonzalo Zeballos, James Sherer, and Alan Pate Fighting the war on two fronts: External Outside of the EU, concerns continue after the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaks demonstrated issues related to U.S. handling of European data. Beginning in July, 2013, the ongoing Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks were seen as a … Continue Reading

2012 Payments Systems Year-in-Review

Photo of Craig A. HoffmanBy Craig A. Hoffman on Posted in Payment Card Industry
The interchange fee and the potential of mobile payments were the dominant payment system issues in 2012.  From a landmark antitrust settlement to seemingly daily announcements of a new prepaid or mobile payment product, there was plenty of activity in 2012.  However, following opt-outs and objections to the settlement, the rise-and-fall of new products, and … Continue Reading
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