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The Court of Justice of the European Union continues to make things interesting in the data protection world. First came the court’s “Schrems II” decision last July, and this week, the CJEU issued a ruling that could spring a leak and potentially sink adequacy negotiations between the U.K. and EU.…

Earlier this year, the Irish Data Protection Commission (“DPC”), which is responsible for enforcing GDPR compliance in Ireland,  published a report  regarding how websites across a range of industries are using cookies and tracking technologies, as well as new guidance regarding what’s required to comply with GDPR from a cookie consent perspective. If you’re collecting data from…

More than half of enterprises have no intention of ceasing or reducing their reliance on US-based or non-European Economic Area (EEA) data processors despite the Schrems II ruling, a survey conducted by legal experts at Fieldfisher has found. Of the 138 anonymous responses received from enterprises, about 75% indicated that half or…

A dossier of evidence detailing how the online ad targeting industry profiles Internet users’ intimate characteristics without their knowledge or consent has been published today by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), piling more pressure on the country’s data watchdog to take enforcement action over what complainants contend is the “biggest data breach…

In a recent hearing at the US Senate, the CEOs of Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple testified before the US Senate concerning antitrust issues. As the BBC’s James Clayton (North America Technology Reporter) noted, “central to the interrogation will be whether these tech giants are simply too big”. This issue…

The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 9 that Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner issued a preliminary order that Facebook must stop transferring user data to the U.S. The order, which was reported based on anonymous sources “according to people familiar with the matter,” follows the Court of Justice of the European Union’s ruling…

A European Union privacy regulator has sent Facebook Inc. a preliminary order to suspend data transfers to the U.S. about its EU users, according to people familiar with the matter, an operational and legal challenge for the company that could set a precedent for other tech giants. The preliminary order,…

Of all the privacy developments that have hit the headlines this year, arguably none – not even the coming into effect of the CCPA, developments related to the LGPD in Brazil, or the ongoing Brexit adequacy saga – have been as impactful as the Court of Justice of the European Union’s…

September 16, 12:00p.m. – 1:00p.m. The legal and ethical need to protect personally sensitive data is well understood. Equally, the extra-territorial reach of the EU’s GDPR legislation and the trans-Atlantic Privacy Shield agreement have been part of the recent landscape for doing business. However, COVID notwithstanding, this year is upsetting…

This issue is a big deal, but one that comes as little surprise to those following subject.  As you may have already heard, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) recently ruled that the current data transfer agreement between the European Union and the United States known as the…