The discussions between the EU and the U.S. on the Safe Harbor mechanism seemed to be almost there, but this morning the EU Court of Justice’s Advocate General Yves Bot has set the cat among the pigeons in his Opinion on the...more
9/24/2015
/ Data Protection ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Edward Snowden ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Facebook ,
International Data Transfers ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
Social Media ,
Surveillance ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
Regulators, courts and law enforcement authorities in the U.S. (and other jurisdictions around the globe) have an insatiable appetite for access to data held by a range of companies, including in particular financial...more
9/16/2015
/ Best Practices ,
Cloud Computing ,
Data Privacy ,
Data-Sharing ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
Financial Institutions ,
Government Investigations ,
Internet Retailers ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
Law Enforcement ,
Risk Management ,
Telecommunications ,
Umbrella Agreement
To become law, the proposed text will need to be adopted jointly by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers (i.e. ‘ordinary legislative procedure’). In March 2014, the European Parliament voted in plenary and...more