The European Parliament has voted to adopt the draft text of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which imposes enhanced requirements on organizations processing personal data in the European Union and transferring...more
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has held that the EU Commission's decision establishing the Safe Harbor data transfer framework is invalid because the Commission failed to determine that the protection...more
10/8/2015
/ Binding Corporate Rules ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Edward Snowden ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Commission ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Facebook ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Ireland ,
National Security ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
Personal Data ,
Privacy Laws ,
Right to Privacy ,
Safe Harbors ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
In a landmark decision that threatens to undo the process by which American companies handle personal data flowing from the European Union, the Advocate General (AG) of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued an advisory...more
10/1/2015
/ Advocate General ,
Better Business Bureau ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Data Transfers ,
Edward Snowden ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Facebook ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
Personal Data ,
PRISM Program ,
Safe Harbors ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework