Washington — The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing today on consumer privacy with Chairwoman Maria Cantwell focusing on the need to pass baseline federal privacy and to ensure the FTC has adequate resources to address privacy. Ahead of the hearing, the Computer & Communications Industry Association sent a letter to committee leaders expressing appreciation…
Brussels, BELGIUM — The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) today joined other industry organizations in a joint statement asking EU Member States to respect the fundamental principles of the e-Commerce Directive during the negotiations of the Digital Services Act (DSA) The signatories support an ambitious DSA and its objectives to protect consumers and their…
Washington – Governor Jared Polis has signed the Colorado Privacy Act into law, making Colorado the third U.S. state to enact comprehensive consumer privacy legislation. New rules are set to take effect July 1, 2023. The Computer & Communications Industry Association welcomes Colorado lawmakers’ successful efforts to enact new rights and protections for consumer privacy.…
Brussels, BELGIUM — The EU Court of Justice has ruled that data protection authorities, under limited circumstances, can go after companies that do not have the main establishment in their EU Member State. Consistent interpretation and enforcement of data protection rules ensure that organisations operating in several Member States cannot be judged twice for the…
Brussels, BELGIUM — The European Commission has adopted a new data transfer mechanism. The revamped model contracts, formerly known as “Standard Contractual Clauses” or SCCs, are the most popular legal instrument that companies operating in Europe use to transfer data abroad. Unlike its predecessor, the new SCCs can be used by a wider range of…
Washington — As the National Institute of Standards and Technology works to further develop its Privacy Risk Management Framework, CCIA offered a statement supporting this framework for risk-based mechanisms to improve privacy. The following can be attributed to CCIA Vice President of Public Policy Arthur Sidney: “In the modern data-enabled economy, businesses work hard to…
Brussels, BELGIUM — The European Commission today announced two new adequacy decisions for the transfer of EU personal data to the United Kingdom. With these decisions, the European Commission considers that the United Kingdom provides a level of protection of EU personal data that is equivalent to the EU’s laws. Once approved, UK and EU…
Brussels, BELGIUM — The EU Member States (“EU Council”) today approved a joint position on the e-Privacy Regulation, originally proposed in 2017. This decision paves the way for final negotiations with the European Parliament and the European Commission. The proposed e-Privacy Regulation entails new privacy rules that will affect how Europeans consume online services from…
CCIA submitted comments to the European Commission on the draft new Standard Contractual Clauses (‘SCC’) to transfer data outside of the EU. CCIA believes this transfer tool will pave the way towards greater legal certainty for most data transfers outside the European Union. However, the tool could still be made more practical for companies to…
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