In July 2023, the EU and the U.S. signed an agreement to replace the Privacy Shield with the revised Data Privacy Framework. But Schrems has said he'll try to take it down, just like he did Safe Harbor and Privacy Shield, and a French lawmaker has filed an official challenge. Julian Flamant, senior associate at Hogan Lovells, talks us through the changes and what we should EVEN DO!

In this episode, Joe Jerome makes his triumphant return across the mic from Angelique. In a free-ranging conversation, the two frenemies discuss what the metaverse actually is, the latest legislation aimed at protecting kids online, and why you should never take a photo of someone with their mouth open.

This whole privacy situation is insane these days. Sometimes it helps to have a privacy journo talk about the big themes and takeaways. Tonya Riley, a reporter for Cyberscoop, is tracking the latest trends in privacy enforcement. She'll tell you a bit about it in this insightful dispatch.

Welp, the Irish DPC fined Meta $1.3 billion, the highest ever GDPR fine, and it ordered Meta to stop transferring data from the EU to the U.S. The implication, obviously, is that every other company using SCCs to transfer data is also in breach of the GDPR. But the problem is at the political level! We can't solve this organizationally. So, what’s a company to even do? Eduardo Ustaran talks you off the ledge.

Everyone's losing it over this Washington State privacy law. The impetus for the bill was to cover gaps in HIPAA, and the Dobbs v. Jackson decision lit a fire in regulators, putting health-data privacy protections on a fast-track that never slowed. Mike Hintze, co-founder of Hintze Law, says this one “goes well beyond what any other privacy law has done.” Here's what he means.