Ad Law Access

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…

What Does Brexit Mean for Privacy Shield?

Three and a half years after UK citizens voted to leave the EU, the country officially left the Union on January 31. One of the many questions resulting from the departure is what happens to the EU-U.S. 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…