A third regulator has recently entered into a proposed consent that includes a $500,000 fine based in part on a company’s over-retention of personal data for longer than it was needed. The first regulator was the French data protection authority, the CNIL, in 2021, which we wrote about here. The second regulator was the New York Attorney General in January of 2022, which we described here. And the third is the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which issued a proposed consent with the current and former owners of CafePress on March 15.
April 2022
Nascent EU/ US Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework: some points to note
By Marcus Evans (UK) & Shiv Daddar (UK) on
On 25 March the EU Commission (Commission) and United States (US) announced that they had agreed in principle on a new “Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework” (TADPF) to foster trans-Atlantic data flows and address the…