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Transparency
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Privacy Compliance & Data Security
First Impressions: California Attorney General Issues Draft CCPA Regulations
By Odia Kagan
The California Attorney General has issued long-awaited draft regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which is scheduled to take effect in 2020. High level takeaways: Big emphasis on…
Data Protection Report
No surprises in the recent Planet49 European Court of Justice judgment
By Christoph Ritzer (DE), Natalia Filkina (DE), Lara White (UK)
On 1 October 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered its judgement on Case C – 673/17 (the “Planet49” case), which relates to the consent and transparency requirements for…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
ESMA updates MiFID II Q&As on market structures and transparency topics
By Hannah Meakin (UK), Imogen Garner (UK)
On 2 October 2019, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published updated versions of its Q&As on market structures topics and transparency topics under MiFID II and MIFIR. The…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
ESMA confirms delay of annual review on transparency requirements for non-equity instruments
On 24 September 2019, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a letter (dated 19 September 2019) from Steven Maijoor, ESMA Chair, to Olivier Guersent, European Commission Director General…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Highlighting (just some of) the many challenges of gathering good criminal justice data
This new Los Angeles Times editorial, headlined "Police, prosecutors and courts are keeping California’s criminal justice data a secret," provide a useful reminder of an evergreen reality — namely that…
The Right Coast
Trump can change history by declassifying three Obama-era documents | TheHill
This welcome effort to provide more public transparency and accountability almost certainly will focus early on the failings of the now-debunked Russia collusion probe. And I m sure it will…
Media Law Prof Blog
Conference, Yale Law School: ACC2019: Accountability in Partisan Times, October 4-5, 2019 @YaleLawSch
AAC 2019: Accountability in Partisan Times October 4-5, 2019Yale Law School The Access and Accountability Conference brings together a unique combination of practitioners, journalists, scholars and law school clinicians, for spirited…
International Economic Law and Policy Blog
Transparency in WTO Disputes
This is from a U.S. statement to the DSB at the July 22 meeting: With respect to the open meetings and hearings that have taken place, the experience has been…
Media Law Prof Blog
Worthy on Freedom of Information in Europe: Creation, Context, and Conflict
Ben Worthy, University of London, Birkbeck College, is publishing Freedom of Information in Europe: Creation, Context and Conflict in Contested Trade-Offs: Transparency and Secrecy in European Democracies (forthcoming)This paper takes…
HealthBlawg
Trepidation about transparency (in healthcare prices)? Take a closer look.
By David Harlow
The recent Executive Order regarding health care price transparency has many folks in the health care industrial complex contemplating litigation aimed at highlighting ways in which the order may contravene…