On 7 December 2020, the French supervisory authority CNIL (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, French data protection authority) imposed substantive fines on Amazon and Google for allegedly placing advertising cookies on the … [Read more] about French data protection regulator fines Google and Amazon for non-compliance with EU cookie rules
Today, the California Attorney General’s office provided “Notice of Fourth Set of Modifications” to regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act. The new proposed regulatory text would modify the current regulations which took effect in … [Read more] about California AG Proposes Regulatory Changes to CCPA
In the November 2020 edition of the Competition Policy International Antitrust Chronicle, Georgia Tech professor and Alston & Bird senior counsel Peter Swire and partner John Snyder discuss ways to utilize the Portability and Other Required … [Read more] about Alston & Bird Attorneys Propose Assessing Data Portability in Antitrust Context
In addition to issuing new (draft) standard contractual clauses for transferring personal data outside of the EEA, on November 12, the European Commission published a draft decision on standard contractual clauses between controllers and processors … [Read more] about European Commission Publishes Draft ‘Article 28’ Standard Contractual Clauses
Yesterday, California voters approved a ballot initiative containing the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020. The ballot initiative significantly revises the existing California Consumer Privacy Act to create arguably the most comprehensive state … [Read more] about Alston & Bird Analyzes New California Privacy Rights Act in Client Alert