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[…] the Dutch Data Protection Authority Ms. Gabriela Krader, Corporate Data Protection Officer, Deutsche Post DHL Mr. Peter Schaar, Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Germany Dr. Rainer Stentzel, Head of Project Group, Data Protection Reform, German Federal Ministry of the Interior Dr. Wojciech Rafał Wiewiórowski, Inspector General for the Protection of […]

[…] be! very! low! compared! to! countries! that! are!culturally! similar! but! have! an! optHout! regime.! Consider,! for! example,! the! donation! rates! in!Sweden!85.9%!(optHout)!and! Denmark! 4.25%!(optHin);! or! in! Austria! 99.9%!(optHout)!and! Germany!12%!(optHin).118!!An!additional!problem!is!that!consentHbased!processing!tends!to!be!regressive,!since!individuals’!expectations!fall! back!on!existing! experiences.! For! example,! if! Facebook! had! not! proactively!launched!its!News!Feed!feature!in!2006!and!had!instead!waited!for!users!to!optHin,119!we!might!not! have! benefitted! from! Facebook! as! we! know! it! today.! It! is! only! when! data! started! flowing!that! users! […]

[…] be! very! low! compared! to! countries! that! are!culturally! similar! but! have! an! optHout! regime.! Consider,! for! example,! the! donation! rates! in!Sweden!85.9%!(optHout)!and! Denmark! 4.25%!(optHin);! or! in! Austria! 99.9%!(optHout)!and! Germany!12%!(optHin).118!!An!additional!problem!is!that!consentHbased!processing!tends!to!be!regressive,!since!individuals’!expectations!fall! back!on!existing! experiences.! For! example,! if! Facebook! had! not! proactively!launched!its!News!Feed!feature!in!2006!and!had!instead!waited!for!users!to!optHin,119!we!might!not! have! benefitted! from! Facebook! as! we! know! it! today.! It! is! only! when! data! started! flowing!that! users! […]

[…] Schwartz, German and U.S. Telecommunications Privacy Law: Legal Regulation of Domestic Law Enforcement Surveillance , 54 HASTINGS L. J. (2002); Paul M. Schwartz, Evaluating Telecommunications Surveillance in Germany: The Lessons of the Max Planck Institute’s Study , 72 GEO . WASH . L. REV . (2003); Jacqueline E. Ross, The Place of Covert Surveillance […]

[…] Info. Soc’y 723, 724 (2007). Id. Consider, for example, the donation rates in Sweden (opt-out) and Denmark (opt-in), 85.9% and 4.25% respectively; or in Austria (opt-out) and Germany (opt-in), 99.9% and 12% respectively. Notice, however, that additional factors besides individuals’ willingness to participate, such as funding and regional organization, affect the ultimate conversion rate […]

[…] continue to be implemented differently across member states. For example, France and Greece already require opt-in (explicit) consent to be obtained by companies while the UK and Germany consider that consent can be established using browser settings (implied). These laws vary further when a cookie is used (a tool used to store information on […]

[…] held on Nov. 23-25 and acquire the skills necessary to compose a EuroPriSe Evaluation Report and qualify as a EuroPrise Privacy Expert. International privacy experts are invited to take the certification exam to receive the accreditation to become expert reviewers. EuroPriSe is a government-backed European privacy seal; an initiative of the data protection authority of Schleswig-Holstein (ULD), Germany. Register here.

[…] erasure of outdated negative information. Thereafter policymakers in the U.S. developed the Code of Information Practice, complementing and drawing from the codes being developed in Scandinavia and Germany. A federal law in the U.S. in 1974 protected student information in private and public universities. Since then, the U.S. has enacted federal laws providing partial […]

Event Name: International Data Protection Compliance Date: May 17 – 18, 2011 Location: Berlin, Germany To access this event’s homepage, click here.

Event Name: International Data Protection Compliance Date: May 17 – 18, 2011 Location: Berlin, Germany To access this event’s homepage, click here.