Monthly Archives: November 2020

French Data Protection Authority Rules on Transfers of Health Data

The French Conseil d’Etat handed down an important decision October, 13th regarding privacy and personal data protection. This decision comes in the wake of the “Schrems II” ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which ruled that the protection of data transferred to the United States by the “Privacy Shield” was insufficient under European law.

A platform managing health data (named “Health Data Hub”) was created in 2019 to facilitate the share of these data in order to promote research.… More

Here Comes a New California Privacy Law! A Preliminary Look at the CPRA.

California voters on Election Day passed the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), an update and partial overhaul to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the landmark 2018 privacy law.  The new CPRA strengthens existing privacy protections, particularly for certain categories of sensitive personal information, and creates an independent enforcement agency.  However, privacy advocates like the ACLU of Northern California and the Electronic Frontier Foundation came out against or refused to support the measure,… More