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What Privacy Shield organizations should do in the wake of ‘Schrems II’

The Court of Justice of the European Union issued its decision in “Schrems II” that invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield arrangement. “Privacy Shield had served as an approved “adequacy” mechanism to protect cross-border transfers of personal data from the European Union to the United States under the EU General Data Protection Regulation. More than 5,000 …

The economic exploitation of personal data in privacy and consumer laws

“The Italian Court goes beyond the assumption that personal data as the expression of personality rights, subject to specific and not renounceable forms of protection cannot be treated at the same time as an economic asset when they are collected and processed by an organization to extract economic value. In such a context, if the …