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Revised Safe Harbor Agreed: Introducing the New “EU-U.S. Privacy Shield”

February 2, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

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. […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Data Security, Privacy, Privacy Shield, Regulation

Statement from Peter Swire on Safe Harbor Agreement

February 2, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

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 […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Data Security, International, Privacy, Regulation Tagged With: Safe Harbor 2.0

FTC PrivacyCon Event Examines Cutting-Edge Research and Current Policies Regarding Privacy and Data Security

January 21, 2016 By Kimberly Chemerinsky and Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

The Federal Trade Commission held its PrivacyCon event, featuring nineteen presentations showcasing original research regarding important consumer privacy and security issues by leading academics from universities and think tanks from around the world. A full video recording of the webcast is available here. The conference took place in Washington on Jan. 14, 2016, and included […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Enforcement, Events, Financial Privacy, Health Privacy, Mobile Privacy, Online Privacy, Privacy, Privacy Policy, Regulation

Germany’s Christmas Present: Data-Protection Class Actions

January 6, 2016 By Daniel Felz

Following the European Court of Justice’s Schrems decision invalidating the Safe Harbor mechanism, much attention has focused on how the Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) of EU member states would interpret and enforce Schrems. While close attention to DPA activity is important—and will become even more so upon the passage of the EU General Data Protection […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Enforcement, International Tagged With: Class Action, EU Data Protection, European Union (EU), Safe Harbor

Swire and Future of Privacy Forum Release White Paper for E.U. Regulators on U.S. Surveillance Law and Safe Harbor

December 18, 2015 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Peter Swire, Alston & Bird Senior Counsel and professor at Georgia Institute of Technology Scheller College of Business, has released a new white paper through the Future of Privacy Forum titled “U.S. Surveillance Law, Safe Harbor, and Reforms Since 2013.” The paper is a submission to a forum sponsored by the Belgian Privacy Commission on […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Enforcement, Events, International, Privacy, Regulation Tagged With: European Privacy, Max Schrems Decision

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