For the past 15 years, the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor Framework has been one of the most popular data transfer mechanisms for organizations that engage in cross-border transfers of EU personal data to the United States. In the...more
10/23/2015
/ Article 29 Working Party (WP29) ,
Binding Corporate Rules ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Protection Authority ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Commission ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Privacy Laws ,
Right to Privacy ,
Safe Harbors ,
SCC ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
On July 29, 2015, BakerHostetler filed an amicus brief with the Second Circuit on behalf of the Center for Democracy and Technology, joined by five prominent nonprofit public interest groups, for the en banc rehearing of...more
8/4/2015
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Army ,
Conspiracies ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
En Banc Review ,
Fourth Amendment ,
IRS ,
Search & Seizure ,
Search Warrant ,
Tax Evasion
On February 26, 2015, Jessica L. Rich, Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, spoke at the BakerHostetler Symposium on Section 5 of the FTC Act on how the FTC approaches privacy and...more
On November 12, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission announced that the District Court for the District of Columbia had entered preliminary injunctions against two debt sellers which, together, had improperly posted personal...more
The District of New Jersey has issued a recent opinion highlighting a potential resource for parties engaged in foreign arbitral proceedings – the use of 28 U.S.C. § 1782, which allows parties engaged in foreign proceedings...more
On October 20, 2014, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) announced that it had finalized a rule that alters the way that financial institutions provide privacy policies to their customers. Under the...more
In recent months, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has been steadily ramping up its efforts to monitor, regulate, and provide best practice guidance in the rapidly expanding field of mobile applications. On September 10,...more
10/8/2014
/ Consumer Financial Products ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Cramming ,
Data Brokers ,
Data Protection ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Mobile Apps ,
Mobile Payments ,
Mobile Privacy ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Prepaid Payment Products ,
Third-Party Service Provider
As the advent of “big data” increasingly takes center stage in the data and privacy sphere, data brokers—companies that compile and resell or share consumers’ personal data—have come under increased scrutiny. On May 27, 2014,...more
On May 7, 2014, the FTC hosted the latest seminar in their Spring Privacy Series to address the status of Consumer Generated and Controlled Health Data and relate results of recent FTC studies on the topic. Consumers are...more