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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

Examining the Judicial Redress Act

January 26, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

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 […]

Filed Under: International, Legislation, Privacy, Privacy Litigation, Regulation Tagged With: Judicial Redress Act, Max Schrems Decision, Privacy Act of 1974, Safe Harbor 2.0

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

Senior Counsel Peter Swire to Debate European Privacy Activist Max Schrems

January 5, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

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 […]

Filed Under: Events, International, Privacy, Privacy Policy Tagged With: EU Privacy, European Court of Justice, 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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