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Updates on advertising law and privacy law trends, issues, and developments

Out with the Old, In with the New SCCs

As of September 27, 2021, the European Commission requires controllers and processors to rely on the recently updated Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) for any new contracts governing personal data transfers from the…

EU Court of Justice Strikes Down Privacy Shield; SCCs Safe for Now

On July 16, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) issued a highly-anticipated decision evaluating the validity of two popular mechanisms for transferring personal data from the EU to the United States: Privacy Shield…

The U.S. Approach to Privacy: What Is It, and Where Is It Headed?

As we mark Data Privacy Day, today is a good time to take stock of where U.S. privacy legislation stands in relation to the developments of the past few years. In less than two years, the GDPR and the CCPA became the…

The Last Decade’s Top Ad Law Access Reads

In the 2010s, Kelley Drye’s Ad Law Access blog posted approximately 1500 entries. Below are the most popular by year. To give you a sense of beginning to end, the first post came one month after Apple announced the…

2019 Selected Top Ad Law Access Reads and Listens

In 2019, Ad Law Access published 124 stories on a wide range of topics. However, two topics stood out above the others: California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) CCPA was far and away the most popular topic of 2019…