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Safe Harbor
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Tech Law Blog
Article 29 Working Party demands improvements to Privacy Shield
The Article 29 Working Party (WP29) held a Press Conference today, Wednesday 13 April 2016, welcoming the improvements brought by the Privacy Shield compared to the Safe Harbour decision, but…
Broadcast Law Blog
Copyright Office Reviews Section 512 Safe Harbor for Online User-Generated Content – The Differing Perceptions of Musicians and Other Copyright Holders and Online Service Providers on the Notice and Take-Down Process
Both the popular and media trade press has been full of reports in the last few weeks about musicians and other artists petitioning the Copyright Office to hold YouTube and…
Eye On Privacy
EU-US Privacy Shield: Brace Yourself . . . or Maybe Not
On February 29, 2016, the European Commission and United States released the terms of the much-anticipated renewed framework for the transfer, sharing, and processing of European individuals’ data to the…
Socially Aware Blog
Privacy Shield vs. Safe Harbor: A Different Name for an Improved Agreement?
By Sotirios Petrovas, Cynthia J. Rich, Bastiaan Suurmond
The European Commission (the “Commission”) and the U.S. Department of Commerce issued the draft legal texts for the much anticipated EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (the “Shield”), set to replace the currently…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
Facebook Runs Afoul of French Data Protection Authority
The French data protection authority (CNIL) is placing Facebook’s EU-U.S. data transfer practices under new scrutiny over its use of the defunct Safe Harbor framework. The agency issued a two-part…
Data Law Insights
EU Member States to Investigate EU-U.S. Transfers That Rely Solely on Invalidated Safe Harbor: Starting Now
Certain European Union (EU) Member States’ data protection authorities (DPAs) have already started to announce investigations and or “prudential measures” for data transfers solely relying on the invalidated “U.S.-EU Safe…
Media & Privacy Risk Report
Privacy Shield Offers Hope on EU-U.S. Data Transfer—For Now
By Blaine C. Kimrey, Lisa M. Simonetti, Bryan K. Clark
Politicians in both the European Union and United States touted Tuesday’s agreement on a new “Privacy Shield” for EU-U.S. data transfers as a resolution to the data transfer quagmire that…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
EU and US agree to new safe harbor data transfer pact
The U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Commission announced on Tuesday that they have entered into a new transatlantic safe harbor transfer agreement, which comes two days after the…
Workforce Compliance Insights
New EU US Privacy Shield Announced as a Replacement for the EU US Safe Harbor Program
Please click here to read the AGG Alert my colleague, Kevin Coy, prepared on the new EU US Privacy Shield arrangement.
Data Counsel
Safe Harbor Part Deux: The Privacy Shield
This week began like many. An arbitrary deadline came and went – this one, January 31, 2016, was set by the Article 29 Working Party for European and United States…