This is the inaugural issue of WilmerHale’s 8-in-8 Recent Trends in European Law and Policy Alert Series. Over the next eight weeks, our attorneys will share insights on current and emerging issues ...

The General Data Protection Regulation is a European Union privacy law that comes into effect on May 25, 2018. It has been years in the making, and is to replace the last major piece of EU privacy law ...

Data privacy and personal data breaches have been in the news a lot recently. Over the past few years, companies have been collecting and processing ever-increasing amounts of data about their ...

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has warned key planks of the bloc’s data protection and privacy regime are under attack from industry lobbyists and could face a critical reception from ...

The General Data Protection Regulation came into force on Friday. It will affect companies located in and outside the European Union. The key principle of GDPR is giving consumers control of their ...

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Many civil society organizations are unhappy about the EU Commission’s plans to reopen the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), claiming that the text should be considered a cornerstone of the ...