The European Union signed an agreement with Japan this week which recognizes each other’s data protection laws, allowing organizations to transmit personal data between the two regimes without the need for any particular authorization. International law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth noted that while such equivalence agreements...
Reports say that the UK government has hinted that British data protection laws will be kept ‘aligned’ to the EU’s even after Brexit. Officials have said that there will be continuity with the current rules that govern data protection, and in fact, might allow Britain to...
Brussels — Reports last Wednesday stated that Jean-Claude Juncker's top official, Martin Selmayr, has responded to the government's plans to usher in British standards for citizens' data collection, stating it is essential for UK to retain EU data protection and privacy standards even after Brexit. Selmayr...
Brussels, Belgium - Last Wednesday, the European Court of Justice (EJC) ruled against EU leaders' draft to store and share blanket data of people flying from Europe to Canadian airports. EJC stated that the law could not be accepted in its current state, suggesting it...
In a letter to the European Union (EU), the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) asked the union to scrap its Privacy Shield agreement with the United States, saying that the US will not be able to protect that privacy. The CDD notes the absence of privacy...
An industry study released by the Experian Data Breach Resolution and Ponemon Institute revealed that companies fail to properly understand and perform the organizational changes to comply to the Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For the study Data Risks and Regulations in the Global Economy, the...