International Cybersecurity And Data Privacy Outlook And Review – 2020

For the second consecutive year, following the publication of Gibson Dunn's eighth annual U.S. Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Outlook and Review on Data Privacy Day, we offer this separate International Outlook and Review.

Like many recent years, 2019 saw significant developments in the evolution of the data protection and cybersecurity landscape in the European Union ("EU"):

• Several EU Member States continued to adapt their national legal frameworks, and data protection authorities started to apply and enforce these laws and the GDPR.
• The Court of Justice of the EU ("CJEU") has started to hear cases and delivered rulings that concern the application of the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR")¹ and EU data privacy legislation. The European Data Protection Board ("EDPB"), the EU's regulatory body that took office in 2018 and is composed by representatives of all EU data protection authorities, continued to adopt relevant opinions and guidance