Tag Archive: Transfers

Meta IE €1.2bn fine and stop order: Key takeaways

This article was first published in Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence on 12 April 2023 and are the personal views of the author, Robert Baugh. Subscribers link. Free trial link.  See the…

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Meta Ireland's €1.2bn GDPR fine takes them to €2.5bn in total

Facebook (OK, Meta) just lost out big time with a fine of €1.2bn and orders to suspend transfers of personal data on EEA users to the USA within 5 months…

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EU LIBE Committee's draft motion to reject the EU-US DPF Adequacy Decision

Well, with previous regulators and commentators coming down on either side, and on the fence, over the DPF, no-one said the passage of the EC’s draft adequacy decision would be…

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What is Schrems II?

The Schrems II decision came out nearly 2 years ago, on 16 July 2020. Given the enormous data flows from the EEA and UK to the USA, and many unanswered…

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Time for a healthy kick up the GDPRse!

Now is the perfect time to get your GDPR-house in order. Why? Well, read on!   The UK’s opening back up 19 July 2021 is set to be the day…

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GDPR is 3 years old today!

Well, that was a year!  The thing with GDPR, is that it’s always so intense that you have to live in the moment, and it’s too easy to forget what…

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Brexit impact on UK/EEA data protection

Brexit impact on UK/EEA data protection: transfers, adequacy and Schrems II Originally published by Thomson Reuters © Thomson Reuters. Brexit impact on UK/EEA data protection: transfers, adequacy and Schrems II…