On 5 February 2025, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its opinion in the case of C 413/23 P European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) v Single Resolution Board
Compliance and risk management
TR v Land Hessen – DPA not obliged to fine under the GDPR
By Shan Nanayakkara
In TR v Land Hessen (C‑768/21) the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) found that following a personal data breach, a supervisory authority is under no obligation to exercise its corrective powers, specifically the power to…
Lessons on international transfers to the US to organisations caught by the GDPR
The Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP) announced a fine of €290 million on Uber Technologies Inc. (UTI) and Uber B.V.,(UBV) (together Uber) with press releases in Dutch and English. The fine relates to the transfer of…
EDPB opines on the use of facial recognition in airports
Co-written by Swaathi Balajawahar, Trainee Solicitor
Introduction
On 23 May 2024, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued Opinion 11/2024 on the use of facial recognition to streamline airport passengers’ flow (the Opinion). The Opinion considered the use of facial…
UK regulators’ strategic approaches to AI: a guide to key regulatory priorities for AI governance professionals
Background – white paper response on the UK’s approach to AI regulation
In February 2024, the UK Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT) set out the government’s proposed approach to AI regulation. It published a response to its…
Is your Texas data protection assessment started?
As we have previously written, the Texas comprehensive privacy law, known as the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA), goes into effect on Monday, July 1, 2024. As a reminder, unlike other states’ comprehensive privacy laws that are…
OCR and FTC Issue a Joint Letter Suggesting Enforcement Actions May Be in the Pipeline
On July 20, 2023 HHS and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a joint letter to approximately 130 companies regarding their online data collection processes. The letter follows the much discussed December 1, 2022, Bulletin that expanded the kinds of…
Privacy law is becoming more technically sophisticated. So should you.
As privacy laws and requirements become more technically sophisticated, businesses may want to consider how they can follow suit.…
For whom the bell tolls: FTC, regulators and private parties are coming for online tracking technologies
Over a year ago the FTC fired the first warning shot – the FTC health breach notification rule would be used as the basis for enforcement actions where sites and apps shared health information without a user’s permission. Following suit…
HHS: Online trackers without prior authorization and BAAs can violate HIPAA
HHS: Online trackers without prior authorization and BAAs can violate HIPAA
By Steve Roosa, Sue Ross, Dan Rosenzweig
On the evening of December 1, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a 12-page Bulletin titled “…