On February 9, 2016, President Barack Obama unveiled his new Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP), a comprehensive approach to confront cybersecurity challenges. As articulated in the CNAP Fact Sheet released by the White House, CNAP takes “near-term actions and puts in place a long-term strategy to enhance cybersecurity awareness and protections, protect privacy, maintain public […]
Board Governance & Cyber Risk Management
Managing the E.U. Data Transfer Landscape
On January 28, Alston & Bird presented “Practical and Strategic Considerations in Today’s EU Data Transfer Landscape.” The panel addressed new laws and breaking events in European Union data privacy. The panel reviewed the status of talks around a revised “Safe Harbor 2.0” following the invalidation of Safe Harbor last October. The panel offered strategic […]
Article 29 Working Party announces its 2016 Action Plan for GDPR Preparedness
During a press conference held on February 3, 2016, the President of the Article 29 Working Party (“Working Party”) discussed the Working Party’s 2016 action plan concerning the new General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The action plan lays out the groundwork required to prepare the DPAs for their new role under the GDPR and to […]
Revised Safe Harbor Agreed: Introducing the New “EU-U.S. Privacy Shield”
European Commission and U.S. officials today announced reaching a “political agreement” on a new Safe Harbor framework. The new framework will be called the “EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.” In a press conference and a press release today, European officials highlighted the following points about the new framework: Limitations on surveillance: Commission officials report that the U.S. […]
Statement from Peter Swire on Safe Harbor Agreement
Peter Swire issued the following statement today following news of a revised Safe Harbor framework. Today the European Union and United States announced a new framework for transatlantic data flows, called the EU-US Privacy Shield. This will update the EU-US Safe Harbor agreement, for which I was part of the negotiating team in 2000. At […]