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CJEU’s Judgment on Validity of EU Standard Contractual Clauses Due July 16, 2020

Hunton Privacy

The AG also raised concerns regarding the Privacy Shield, an alternative mechanism for transferring personal data from the EU to the U.S. The judgment will be of great importance to businesses around the globe, the vast majority of which rely on SCCs to transfer personal data from the EU to the U.S., in the U.S.

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BREAKING: Unexpected Outcome of Schrems II Case: CJEU Invalidates EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework but Standard Contractual Clauses Remain Valid

Hunton Privacy

In its judgment, the CJEU concluded that the Standard Contractual Clauses (the “SCCs”) issued by the European Commission for the transfer of personal data to data processors established outside of the EU are valid. EU Safe Harbor Framework in 2015, following an earlier challenge by the same privacy advocate. Background.

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UK: Supreme Court judgment in Morrisons – employer not vicariously liable for data breach

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Today the Supreme Court allowed an appeal in Morrisons v Various Claimants1, a significant judgment addressing the extent of an employers’ liability for data breaches maliciously committed by an employee. The Data Protection Act 1998 does not exclude the imposition of vicarious liability for statutory or common law wrongs. Background.

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SCHREMS 2.0 – the demise of Standard Contractual Clauses and Privacy Shield?

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

If this happens, many organisations will be left without any practical solution to legitimise the international transfer of personal data outside the EEA and exposure to the threat of GDPR revenue based fines, regulatory sanctions including injunctions and third party claims for compensation. Why are SCCs and Privacy Shield important?

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Cloud, Intelligent Content Services, and Digital Fragility: What’s on the RIM Horizon for 2020

ARMA International

Government topped the list of vertical industries at 23%. Information Governance Programs Still a Work-In-Progress. In 2015, Forrester first posed the question “Have you restructured or re-organized your RIM and/or IT programs to support an information governance strategy?” participants at 77% and Canada at 17%.

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Transfers on Trial: Privacy Shield and Standard Contractual Clauses go before the European Courts

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

Privacy Shield brought by three French NGOs, La Quadrature du Net, French Data Network and Fédération FDN. In response to that ruling, the European Commission authorised a new scheme in collaboration with the US government, the Privacy Shield, which came under challenge from the French NGOs listed above in November 2016.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Even government and public bodies’ websites – including, ironically, the ICO – were found to be running cryptomining software after a third-party plug-in was compromised, but it transpired. And, of course, on 25 May the GDPR came into effect.