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With 2016 in the rear-view mirror, we have been reflecting on the many data privacy and cybersecurity legal developments of the past year, both in the U.S. and internationally, as well as focusing on trends to watch in the new year.  With best wishes...

A few weeks ago, we reviewed the European Commission and the United States’ agreement on a new framework for transatlantic data flows, the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, along with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which would regulate the progression...

Welcome to this month’s Regulatory Round-Up, which summarises the FCA’s announcements and other regulatory information we have circulated during May. Overview In the last few weeks we have seen a stream of publications in advance of the four week ...

On Friday 24 June, 2016 we woke up to a historic moment in British history, as the referendum taken the day before decided that we would leave the European Union. While we are still a member of the EU until article 50 has been invoked by the British...

On April 13, 2016, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29), an influential group of European data protection authorities, issued a non-binding opinion that criticized certain elements of the fledgling Privacy Shield framework. Although the Privacy Shield...