Topic
Safe Harbor
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Eye On Privacy
Don’t Lose Your DMCA Safe Harbor Protection!
The U.S. Copyright Office’s new electronic system for copyright-agent registration and maintenance goes into effect on December 1, 2016, and with it comes new rules. Beginning December 1, all online…
Delaware Bankruptcy Update
SDNY Rules that Distribution of Liquidated Swap Agreement Collateral is Protected by the Safe Harbor in Bankruptcy Code Section 560
In the recent decision of Lehman Bros. Special Fin. Inc. v. Bank of Am. Nat’l Assoc. (In re Lehman Bros. Holdings Inc.), 2016 WL 3621180 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. June 28, 2016), the…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Q&A
By Jason C. Gavejian, Joseph J. Lazzarotti, Damon W. Silver
Last month, the European Union and U.S. officials announced final approval of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (Privacy Shield), replacing the Safe Harbor which was invalidated by the Court of Justice…
La Revue
Attention : la Commission européenne adopte le Privacy Shield (le bouclier de la vie privée)
La Commission européenne a adopté le 12 Juillet 2016 la décision d'adéquation du Privacy Shield, accord négocié ces derniers mois avec le Ministère Américain du Commerce afin d’encadrer les transferts…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
EU Member States Approve Privacy Shield
On July 8, 2016, EU representatives on the Article 31 Committee approved the final version of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield to permit transatlantic transfers of personal data from the EU…
La Revue
Invalidation du Safe harbor : sanctions en Allemagne
L’autorité de protection des données personnelle de Hambourg a infligé une amende à des entreprises pour des transferts de données illicites vers les États-Unis.
Data Protection Report
Hamburg DPA’s Safe Harbor Fines Spell Further Uncertainty and Risk for Global Companies
On June 6, 2016, Johannes Caspar – the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection – announced that the Hamburg Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) fined three companies for relying on the invalidated…
Technology Law Dispatch
German Data Protection Authority fines companies for transferring data to the United States
By Dr. Alexander Hardinghaus, Dr. Thomas Fischl, Cynthia O’Donoghue, Daniel Kadar, Kate Brimsted, Philip Thomas, Katalina Bateman, Thomas C. Evans, Chantelle Taylor, Doretta Frangaki, Caroline Gouraud
Following the CJEU’s judgment of October 2015 invalidating the European Commission’s Safe Harbor Decision, the Data Protection Authority Hamburg ("DPA Hamburg") started investigations against 35 internationally operating companies in Hamburg.…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Tenth Circuit Affirms Lower Court Ruling on Meaning of “User” in DMCA §512(c) Safe Harbor
Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) offers safe harbors for qualifying service providers to limit their liability for claims of copyright infringement. To benefit from the Section…
Data Counsel
Privacy Shield Update: A Recap of Recent Developments
By Melinda L. McLellan, Jenna N. Felz
On April 13, 2016, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29), an influential group of European data protection authorities, issued a non-binding opinion that criticized certain elements of the fledgling Privacy…