Washington Privacy Act 2.0: State Lawmakers Take Another Stab at a Comprehensive Privacy Bill
By Michael A. Shapiro, Senior Counsel and Director, Data Privacy Last year, the expectations were high for the Washington state to pass a Privacy Act which would have granted consumers ...
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NIST Privacy Framework: A New Tool to Identify and Manage Privacy Risk in Organizations
By Michael A. Shapiro, Senior Counsel and Director, Data Privacy The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published its first Privacy Framework on January 16, 2020. NIST is a ...
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Google Chrome to Phase Out Third-Party Cookies in Two Years
By Michael A. Shapiro, Senior Counsel and Director, Data Privacy In a January 14, 2020 blog post published by Justin Schuh, the Director of Chrome Engineering, Google announced its intention ...
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The CCPA Is Finally Here. What’s Next for Companies Doing Business in California?
By Michael A. Shapiro, Senior Counsel and Director, Data Privacy The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) came into effect on January 1, 2020. In the preceding months, companies scrambled to ...
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The Advocate General of the CJEU Proposes to Uphold the Validity of the Standard Contractual Clauses but Questions the Validity of the E.U.-US Privacy Shield
In a non-binding recommendation, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) recommended that Court uphold the validity of the Standard Contractual Clauses but questioned ...
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German Supervisory Authority Imposes a Fine on Real Estate Company for Storing Unnecessary Data in Violation of the GDPR
On October 30, 2019, the Berlin Commissioners for Data Protection (Supervisory Authority) imposed a 14.5 million Euros fine against Deutsche Wohnen SE, one of the leading property companies in Germany, ...
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