In the June 2016 blog German Privacy Regulator Makes Its Mark with Fines, we covered the Hamburg Data Commissioner’s fining of companies for using the then-invalid Safe Harbor to transfer data from the
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In July 2016, the 2nd Court of Appeals in New York overturned a lower court’s ruling that Microsoft had to comply with a federal warrant as part of a narcotics case for an
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Japan has a great deal invested in the United Kingdom and the European Union, which is why it recently sent a strong message to both on behalf of its businesses located in the
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Last month, the European Commission officially adopted the Privacy Shield, which boasted stronger protection for transatlantic data flows while also providing greater clarity for businesses. U.S. companies were invited to certify with the
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” wrote Charles Dickens in the opening of his 19th-century novel, “A Tale of Two Cities.” How appropriate it is today and
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Just as the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) determined in April, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Giovanni Buttarelli has also concluded that there’s more work to be done on the EU-U.S. Privacy
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While there’s more work to be done on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, which is intended to replace the Safe Harbor agreement and provide protection of EU citizens’ data when in the United States,
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In June, the European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli stated that there was more work to be done on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. As of July 12 that work has concluded: The European
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The Internet search giant Google recently made headlines, this time over another antitrust allegation levied by the European Commission. In 2015, the European Commission issued a Statement of Objections to Google that alleged
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As the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield news was popping this past February, LLM, Inc. released a white paper on recommended best practices and the future of transatlantic data privacy and transfer policies: After Safe
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On the heels of last week’s post on the latest chapter in the VW scandal, in which a former employee is suing the company for wrongful termination and violation of Michigan whistleblower law,
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