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President Obama Announces Cybersecurity National Action Plan

February 11, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

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 […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Digital Crimes, Enforcement, National Security, Privacy, Regulation Tagged With: The White House

Article 29 Working Party announces its 2016 Action Plan for GDPR Preparedness

February 4, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

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 […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, GDPR, Legislation, Privacy, Regulation Tagged With: EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, EU Regulation, European Union (EU), Regulatory Enforcement

EU Working Party Discusses Data Transfer Framework

February 3, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Today, the consortium of European data protection authorities, the Article 29 Working Party (“WP29”), released a much awaited statement on the consequences of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) decision that invalidated the Safe Harbor framework. Companies will be relieved to find that alternative transfer mechanisms, such as Model Contracts or Binding Corporate Rules, are […]

Filed Under: Enforcement, International, Privacy, Regulation Tagged With: Max Schrems Decision, Safe Harbor 2.0

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

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