The big news in June were the EU Standard Contractual Clauses for cross-border data transfers to non-EEA countries. There were also significant developments for companies engaging in employee surveillance, ad…
What’s happened? The European Commission has finalised its new standard contractual clauses (“SCCs”) for the transfer of personal data from EEA member states to the many “third countries” – most…
May saw useful reminders for companies, including: (i) the need to appoint an EU – and/or UK – representative if caught by the (UK) GDPR’s extraterritorial effect; (ii) that regulators…
The key development from April must be the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) approving the draft UK adequacy decisions from the European Commission (the “Commission”). Companies will be relieved that…
March gave companies plenty to take stock of. A multi-million euro fine for deficient vendor oversight, scrutiny of unlawful data transfers to a well-known U.S. email marketing service provider, and…
There were a few European data protection developments in February that companies may want to have on their radar. These include a draft adequacy decision for EU-UK data transfer, renewed…
As covered in our Annual Review, 2020 was a blockbuster year for European data protection. If January is anything to go by, 2021 will be the same. New data breach…
On 19 January 2021, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) published its September 2020 letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) analysing the GDPR’s impact on UK-based…
Over two years since the GDPR came into force, the full extent of its impact is still developing at pace. In this post, we look back at the 2020 European…
The big news this November was the European Data Protection Board (the “EDPB”) issuing its highly anticipated post-Schrems II data transfer guidance, followed just a day later by the European…