Andrew Dyson, Alexa Smith The hospitality industry has been hard hit by COVID-19. Measures introduced this week by the UK government to ease restrictions for the sector come with a condition – if you open a pub, restaurant or other hospitality venue for business you must keep a record of patrons who visit and be […]

Written by members of the DLA Piper European cyber and data protection team On 24 June, the European Commission published its evaluation report of the GDPR, just over two years after the GDPR become applicable. The Commission’s report indicates that the GDPR has met most of its objectives, in particular in relation to individual enforceable […]

In the eagerly awaited decision in the proceedings against Facebook for abuse of a dominant position (KVR 69/19 – decision of 23 June 2020), the German Federal Court of Justice (“FCJ”) provisionally confirmed the decision of the German Federal Cartel Office (“FCO”). According to the FCJ, there were no serious doubts that Facebook was abusing […]

With the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) enforcement deadline only a month away, Chief Privacy Officers still must grapple with significant uncertainties about what exactly the law requires.

First, the final regulations issued by  the California Office of the Attorney General were just released to the public on June 2, with a request for expedited 30-business-day review by the California State Office of Administrative Law (OAL). As the California Attorney General’s Final Statement of Reasons acknowledges, the regulations contain several requirements that go beyond the text of the law (see below).[1]

Second, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) initiative[2], which would significantly change the CCPA and make it very difficult to make adjustments to the legislation in the future, has been submitted to the California Secretary of State with more than 900,000 signatures. The CPRA is now subject to sampling of the validity of those signatures. The sampling is to determine by June 25 whether the initiative will appear on the November 2020 election ballot – in which case, it is widely expected to be approved. Sampling completed as of June 1 suggests that CPRA signature validity will be sufficient to put the initiative on the ballot.