The proposed Judicial Redress Act has recently been touted as a critical step towards developing a revised “Safe Harbor 2.0″ framework. (See our prior posts on Safe Harbor here and here.) This post summarizes the essential provisions of the bill as passed by the House of Representatives and currently pending before the U.S. Senate. As […]
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Germany’s Christmas Present: Data-Protection Class Actions
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 […]
Senior Counsel Peter Swire to Debate European Privacy Activist Max Schrems
Peter Swire, Alston & Bird Senior Counsel and Huang Professor of Law and Ethics at the Georgia Institute of Technology Scheller College of Business, will debate privacy activist Max Schrems on January 26, 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. The event, sponsored by the Brussels Privacy Hub at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, will take place at the […]
Swire and Future of Privacy Forum Release White Paper for E.U. Regulators on U.S. Surveillance Law and Safe Harbor
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 […]
The EU General Data Protection Regulation – Europe Adopts Single Set of Privacy Rules
On December 15, 2015, following four years of close, sometimes contentious, review, the EU institutions agreed upon the text of the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”). One of the most important EU legislative initiatives in recent years, the GDPR is also a landmark in privacy regulation worldwide. As from the time the GDPR takes […]