Joseph J. Lazzarotti and Mary T. Costigan of JacksonLewis write: Businesses are now prohibited from transferring employee personal data from the European Economic Area (EEA) to the U.S. under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield program. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declared the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield invalid in Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook…
Category: Laws
Protect consumer privacy: Repeal GLBA’s privacy provisions
It is so hard to get privacy protections for consumers that you might think that if a law has privacy provisions, you’d want to keep them. Not necessarily, as Robert Gellman explains in an opinion piece that opened my eyes — and may open yours, too. How do the privacy protections in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act…
Updated ICO statement on the judgment of the European Court of Justice in the Schrems II case.
From the ICO, July 27 — Anyone transferring personal data internationally will have been watching the recent judgment of the CJEU with some trepidation. International data transfers, that are so vital for the global economy, suddenly became open to question. The CJEU has confirmed how EU standards of data protection must travel with the data when it…
Government ordered to rewrite German telecom act due to privacy concerns
From PrivSec Report: Germany’s Constitutional Court has told the government to revise the Telecommunications Act by the end of next year as it violates the right of citizens to phone and internet privacy. The law at present is unconstitutional because authorities have too much access to people’s data and the privacy of Germans should be…