Gary Kibel was quoted in a Law360 article, "Meta's EU Privacy Fines Send Cos. Back to Drawing Board." Continue Reading
UK Issues New Model Clauses for International Data Transfers
The Bottom Line As a result of Brexit, the UK has introduced its own new documents to govern certain cross-border transfers of personal data.Businesses need to be aware of the similarities and differences between the EU and UK approaches. After Brexit took effect last year, the United Continue Reading
EU Regulators Rule Ad Tech Industry’s TCF Framework Violates GDPR
The Bottom Line The EU’s decision has struck at the heart of the ad tech industry’s system designed to ensure compliance with the GDPR when personal data is collected for retargeting. The program behind the scenes when an EU data subject sees a cookie banner may require significant Continue Reading
Senators Urge the FTC to Investigate “Privacy Violations” by Adtech Companies
The Bottom Line Senators Wyden and Cassidy, along with eight other members of Congress, sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simmons on July 31 urging the FTC to investigate what they called “widespread privacy violations by companies in the advertising technology Continue Reading
Schrems II: The EU-US Privacy Shield Is a Thing of the Past
The Bottom Line The summer of 2020 is proving to be a busy time for privacy legislation and an exciting time for privacy enthusiasts. On the heels of the official California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) enforcement date on July 1st and the second anniversary of the European Continue Reading
European Commission Marks GDPR’s Second Anniversary with a Review and Possible Updates
The Bottom Line With all of the attention that’s been paid to the start of enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), it might be easy to have missed that it has been two years since the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect on May 25, Continue Reading
GDPR’s Inaugural Year: Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned
The Bottom Line In GDPR’s inaugural year, except in the case of Google, the low fines indicate that there has been a degree of tolerance for noncompliance as companies continue to determine how to become compliant.However, the past year has shown that no one is immune from regulatory scrutiny, Continue Reading
Davis+Gilbert, Evidon and Lewis Silkin Seminar | Ad Tech, Privacy and GDPR – The Time Is Now
As an industry driven by data, the ad tech industry has always focused on privacy issues in connection with its data collection and use practices, such as retargeting, profiling, analytics and cross-device tracking. Companies in the ecosystem have many legal and self-regulatory obligations in order Continue Reading