Tag archives: European Commission

One week into GDPR – what you need to know

By Jeewon Kim Serrato (US), Marcus Evans (UK), Ffion Flockhart (UK) and Steven Hadwin (UK) on June 4, 2018 Posted in Compliance and risk management

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Websites go dark, complaints are filed within an hour, European Commission suffers an embarrassing data leak, and the US Commerce Secretary warns about the unintended trade impact of the law – all in the first week of the GDPR The European Union’s far-reaching General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on 25 May amid … Continue reading

European Commission issues new GDPR guidance

By Alexis Wilpon (US) on January 24, 2018 Posted in Compliance and risk management

The GDPR will come into force exactly four months from Thursday. In preparation, the European Commission has released a new website with extensive guidance on GDPR implementation, together with a Fact Sheet containing Q&As on the GDPR. While much of the guidance is already known to privacy professionals, there are new insights as well.… Continue reading

European Commission Publishes Proposal for the New e-Privacy Regulation

By Marcus Evans (UK) and Lara White (UK) on January 26, 2017 Posted in Compliance and risk management, Regulatory response

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On 10 January 2017, the European Commission published the official proposal of the revised e-Privacy Regulation, which amends the current e-Privacy Directive. Many of the alarming changes that were included in the leaked December draft of the Regulation, which we covered, have been changed, resulting in a practical set of rules that align with the … Continue reading

EU and US reach agreement on cross-border data transfer framework, but uncertainty remains

By Marcus Evans (UK) on February 2, 2016 Posted in Regulatory response

On February 2, 2016, the European Commission and the United States reached an agreement on a new framework to permit transatlantic transfers of personal data. The new framework — named “EU-US Privacy Shield” — is slated to replace the US-EU Safe Harbor framework that was invalidated by the Court of Justice for the European Union.… Continue reading

EU regulation proposal seeks to encourage consistency in data protection enforcement

By Marcus Evans (UK) on April 16, 2015 Posted in Regulatory response

This is Part 4 of a five-part series on the “One Stop Shop” mechanism in the proposed new European data protection regulation. In Part 1 we examined why there is a need for a One Stop Shop, and what it is. In Part 2 we examined the concept of main establishment and the position of entities without an EU establishment. In Part … Continue reading