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Now that the United Kingdom is (finally) exiting the European Union (EU) one question U.S. based companies have is what happens to transfers of personal data from the United Kingdom (UK) to the United States under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The International Trade Administration’s (ITA) Privacy Shield Team recently put out guidance…

Please join Arnall Golden Gregory (AGG) for our annual Employment Law Seminar on Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, GA. Our attorneys—who have been recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and Super Lawyers—will address what you need to know regarding employer rights and obligations…

On June 28, 2018, the California governor signed AB 375, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“the CCPA” or “Act”), intended to protect the private data of consumers and effectively pushing down some of the toughest consumer privacy protections in the country. The CCPA contains sweeping new consumer privacy requirements and has significant…

This week’s Compliance News Flash features information on the GDPR and the assessment of administrative fines, remote hires and the employment eligibility verification process, Homeland Security and worksite enforcement for small businesses, the end of Temporary Protected Status for Nicaraguans, and information about my presentation on developing a compliant background screening program at my firm’s…

Annually my law firm publishes a checklist of legal issues we believe will be relevant in 2017.  To view the list click here.

In no particular order of importance this year’s list includes the following, with brief write-ups by AGG lawyers:

  1. Wage and Hour
  2. Non-GAAP Financial Measures
  3. Ban the Box
  4. EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
  5. Immigration

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Human Resources professionals have one more item to add to their compliance checklist – ensuring the lawful transfer of employee, consumer or customer personal data from the European Union (“EU”) to the United States. 

To unravel this compliance requirement let’s start with a hypothetical transfer of personal data from location A to location B for …

Please join me on a free webinar next week to learn helpful information on risk mitigation for your organization related to consumer and customer personal data, including must have policies and procedures around collection and use of personal data, the importance of privacy policies, preventing data breaches, steps to take if a data breach occurs,…