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EU: Binding Corporate Rules are Generating Greater Interest

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Multinationals increasingly turning to BCRs as providing more legal certainty for personal data transfers from the EU. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) brought about stricter data protection rules, and increased penalties for breaching these rules. What are BCRs?

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European Commission proposes reinforcement of EU Cybersecurity rules

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

It is also clarified that data centre services other than cloud computing services are as well covered by the Directive and provides for a definition of this concept. The supervisory and penalty regimes would be different for the two categories of entities to ensure proportionality.

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and in the footsteps of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), California privacy advocates introduced a ballot initiative on October 12, 2017 called “The Consumer Right to Privacy Act of 2018” (No. CCPA Background. businesses will fall within the scope of the CCPA.

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