Following yesterday’s announcement that European officials had agreed on the language of the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR” or “Regulation”), today the EU Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee approved the text of the GDPR. The GDPR isn’t law yet, as it still needs to be approved by the EU Parliament next month. However, the Parliament is expected to approve the Regulation, which would then go into force in 2018. Once it becomes effective, the GDPR will replace the twenty-year-old EU Data Protection Directive (the “Directive”) and provide a new omnibus data protection law for the EU... Continue Reading