EU Commission publishes New SCCs

New Standard Contractual Clauses – Q&As

On 4th June 2021 the EU Commission published two sets of standard contractual clauses under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”): Standard contractual clauses for international data transfers (“new SCCs”), which is the much-awaited set of...

New landscape on International Data Transfers

The Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) published, on 16 July 2020, its highly anticipated Judgment in the case known as ‘Schrems II’. This is the latest chapter in the Schrems case that also took down the former EU-US Safe Harbour...

Inteligencia Artificial y Privacidad

Artificial Intelligence and Privacy

Simply mentioning “artificial intelligence” already invokes dangerous robots destroying the world. Fortunately, reality shows that the current uses of this technology are definitely of a much more positive character. In fact, the...

GDPR Consent

Consent According to the GDPR

“Consent” is one of the legitimate bases or legal grounds included in Article 6 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The definition of consent is included in Article 4.11 of the GDPR as follows: Any freely given, specific, informed...