On November 16-17, 2020, Anna Gressel and Avi Gesser from Debevoise’s Data Strategy and Security Group joined AI thought leaders from around the globe at “The Athens Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law.”  During the Roundtable, Avi and Anna were joined by Edward Stroz of Stroz Friedberg for an insightful panel on “Supervising AI: The Role of Corporate…

The European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) recently published new guidance on how companies can validly transfer EU personal data to the many countries that have not been deemed by the EU Commission to generally provide an adequate level of data protection – most notably the U.S. (so called “third countries”). The guidance has particularly important implications for companies that transfer…

EU authorities have understandably declined to put forward a single list of mandatory data security controls that apply to all companies subject to the GDPR. As a result, each new enforcement action by EU data protection authorities provides guidance as to what the GDPR requires for “appropriate technical or organisational measures” to safeguard personal data. We summarise here the lessons…

On November 4, 2020, Vincent Pitaro of the Cybersecurity Law Report published: Comparing U.S. and E.U. Approaches to Incident Response and Breach Notification. The article summarises a panel discussion at the European Incident Response Forum 2020 which featured Robert Maddox from Debevoise & Plimpton’s London office. The panel compared the U.S. and E.U. approaches to incident response across a variety…

October was a particularly busy month, with headline-grabbing stories such as the long-awaited finalisation of the fines against British Airways and Marriott, which may well be the last penalties the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) issues as a GDPR Lead Supervisory Authority.  Having already covered both fines (here and here), and the French CNIL’s latest cookies guidance, below is…