On March 13th, the European Parliament approved the Artificial Intelligence Act (the “Act”). It aims to protect fundamental rights, democracy, the rule of law and environmental sustainability from high-risk Artificial Intelligence (AI), while at the same time boosting innovation and establishing Europe as a leader in the field of AI. The Act establishes obligations for AI that are based on...
Compliance with the GDPR by US companies doing business in the EU has become a sore point between the parties, the most recent salvo being invalidation of the Privacy Shield framework by the European Court of Justice. In March 2022, the European Commission and the US reached an agreement in principle for a Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework. On July 10,...
In 2020, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) annulled Privacy Shield, the EU-U.S. data flows pact. That decision, however, did not invalidate the privacy standard contractual clauses (SCCs). In an earlier post the issue of if the SCCs would survive the ECJ’s Privacy Shield decision was raised: https://spelusolawoffice.com/2020/09/11/will-the-eus-standard-contract-clauses-survive-the-invalidation-of-privacy-shield-with-respect-data-transfers-between-the-eu-and-us/. The news website Politico recently reported that the Irish Data Protection Commission circulated a draft...
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a judgment declaring the inadequacy of the protections provided by the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework. Privacy Shield was developed by the US Department of Commerce and the European Commission to facilitate compliance with personal data protection requirements when transferring personal data from the European Union to the United...
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