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Data Transfer
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Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
Dealing with Personal Information at the Water’s Edge…
Privacy and data security issues and concerns do not stop at the water’s edge. Companies needing to share personal information, even when the sharing will take place inside the same…
Technology Law Dispatch
Shoring Up Safe Harbor: EU and U.S. Must Work Together to Rebuild Trust in EU-US Data Flows
By Cynthia O’Donoghue, Kate Brimsted
Revelations of systematic mass surveillance of EU citizens’ data by the United States did little for transatlantic relations generally, and even less for the EU-US Safe Harbor scheme in particular.…
Global IP & Technology Law Blog
European Commission calls for Safe Harbour to be strengthened
The European Commission has identified the need for it to engage with US authorities as a matter of urgency to discuss shortcomings in the Safe Harbour regime, which allows organisations…
The Global Privacy Watch
Access By US Authorities – The REAL Reason Safe Harbor is at Risk
And now we come to the real sticking point. It actually isn’t specific to the Safe Harbor Framework. Access to data by law enforcement and intelligence assets is outside the…
The Global Privacy Watch
Enforcement – the Next Topic to “Save” Safe Harbor
Enforcement has long been a sticking point between the US and the EU. Some of this comes from the inherent clash of juridical cultures between the civil and common law…
The Global Privacy Watch
US-EU Safe Harbor Agreement at Risk? The Sky Isn’t Falling Yet Chicken Little
Much has been written recently regarding the European commission’s latest report on the sufficiency of the US – EU safe harbor agreement. For the most part, the commentary seems to…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
European Commission Calls for Data Transfer Reforms
By HL Chronicle of Data Protection
On November 27, the European Commission released a strategy memo on rebuilding trust in the mechanisms allowing data to flow from the European Union (“EU”) to the United States. The…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
European Commission Recommends Changes to Safe Harbor
On November 27, 2013, the European Commission published an analysis of the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor Framework and other EU-U.S. data transfer agreements. The Commission called for more transparency in the…
Of Digital Interest
Safe Harbor: Still Alive, Well and Producing Corporate-Wide Privacy Management Programs
More than 4,000 U.S.-based multinational companies have selected the U.S. – E.U. Safe Harbor Program as the preferred compliance mechanism for international data transfers from the E.U. to the U.S. Recent…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Luxembourg DPA Will Not Investigate Microsoft or Skype over Involvement in the PRISM Program
The Luxembourg data protection authority has stated that it will not investigate complaints relating to the alleged involvement of Microsoft Luxembourg and Skype Software S.a.r.l. and Skype Communications S.a.r.l. in…