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EU Rules Restricting the International Transfers of Non-Personal Data

Inside Privacy

Note that the data localization prohibition in this Regulation applies to individual EU Member States’ laws; it does not preclude the EU from implementing data localization requirements. X (Recent Council versions remove this obligation.)

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Face Forward: Strategies for Complying with Facial Recognition Laws

Debevoise Data Blog

The TDPA provides for a private right of action for violation of the prohibition to sell, lease, or disclose data. Compensatory damages or damages between $200 and $1,000 are authorized for each unlawful sale, as are reasonable attorneys’ fees and court costs. See Vance v. Amazon.com Inc. , C20-1084JLR, 2021 WL 1401633, at *2 (W.D.

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Face Forward Part 2: Proposed Legislation and Strategies for Compliant Use of Facial Recognition

Debevoise Data Blog

Further, in a case that we have covered previously involving a supermarket using video surveillance with facial recognition capabilities, the Spanish data protection authority (the “AEDP”) fined grocer Mercadona for violating numerous provisions of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation.

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Connecticut’s Next Generation Data Privacy Law

Debevoise Data Blog

Like other state privacy laws, the CTPA contains a number of entity-based and data-based exemptions, including financial institutions covered by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, national securities associations that are registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and data regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, among other exemptions.

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European Data Protection Roundup – Q4 2024

Debevoise Data Blog

Our top-eleven European data protection developments for the end of 2024 are: EU Cyber Resilience Act: The Council of the European Union approved the Cyber Resilience Act , introducing cybersecurity requirements for digital products sold in the EU. The UK Upper Tribunal did not consider the provisions under the UK GDPR.

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CJEU’s Advocate General Issues Opinion on GDPR Fines Against Companies

Inside Privacy

On April 27, 2023, the Advocate General (“AG”) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) issued its opinion in the case C-807/21 on the conditions for imposing GDPR fines on legal persons (e.g., million fine the Berlin Supervisory Authority imposed on Deutsche Wohnen SE for infringing the GDPR’s data retention obligations.

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Cybersecurity in the Remote Work Era: AI, Employees and an Integrated Defense – With SessionGuardian’s Jordan Ellington and Oren Leib, and Katten’s Trisha Sircar (TGIR Ep. 211)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

I think we can all agree that data privacy is a fundamental and sacred, right. We live in a country where a court of law recently ruled that the All Writs Act couldn’t compel Apple to unlock an iPhone belonging to an accused terrorists. Not all, I believe only one or two state laws in the US require it.

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