Topic
Safe Harbor
316 published works
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…
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…
Employee Benefits Law Report
IRS Finalizes Rules for Reduction or Suspension of Safe Harbor Contributions
During the most recent recession (some might say a mini depression), many employers requested greater flexibility to reduce or suspend safe harbor non-elective contributions to their 401(k) plans. They felt…
The Global Privacy Watch
Redress – the Next Topic to “Save” Safe Harbor
The next set of recommendations seeks to improve how the individual can directly seek resolution to a potential violation of their privacy rights. 5. The privacy policies on companies websites…
The Global Privacy Watch
The First Topic to “Save” Safe Harbor – Transparency
The first set of recommendations in the Commission’s memo addresses a series of perceived deficiencies in how a Safe Harbor participating company makes its privacy practices available to the public…
Tech Law Blog
European Commission calls for restoration of trust in EU-U.S. data flows
The European Commission has published Communications on Rebuilding Trust in EU-US Data Flows and on the Functioning of Safe Harbor. The Communications were released as a result of deepening concerns following the allegations…
Health Law Prof Blog
Published This Week
Alfred C. Server, Application of the Hatch-Waxman Act's Safe Harbor Provision Following Momenta, 13 John Marshall Rev. of Intell. Prop. L. 1 (2013) .Thaddeus Mason Pope, Making Medical Decisions for…
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…
Benefit Notes
IRS Issues Final Regulations on Permitted Mid-Year Reductions or Suspensions of Safe Harbor Contributions
In Final Regulations issued under Internal Revenue Code Section 401(k) in 2004, the IRS outlined procedures for revoking a safe harbor matching contribution formula after the beginning of a safe…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
European Parliament Committee Report to Recommend Suspension of EU-U.S. Safe Harbor
On Monday, a European Parliament Inquiry established to investigate the recent U.S. National Security Agency surveillance revelations indicated that its final report would recommend suspension of the popular EU-U.S. Safe…