Future of Privacy Forum Releases Report on the Effectiveness of the US-EU Safe Harbor Privacy Framework
For immediate release, December 11, 2013 Future of Privacy Forum Releases Report on the Effectiveness of the US-EU Safe Harbor Privacy Framework Report Responds to EU Concerns, Finds the Safe Harbor Program Has Been Effective but Calls for Improvements to Strengthen Trans-Atlantic Privacy Protections Washington, D.C. December 11, 2013 – The Future of Privacy Forum […]
EU Roundtable Discussion & White Paper launch
The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) is engaged in the discussion on the draft European General Data Protection Regulation. In particular, we are publishing white papers addressing three issues raised by the new legislation: De-identification and the definition of personal data Jurisdiction and applicable law Consent You and your colleagues are warmly invited to attend […]
EU Data Protection Reform: Draft Calendar
Green MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht has released a draft calendar of action points for the EU Data Protection Reform. Mr. Albrecht, the European Parliament Rapporteur assigned to the Data Protection Reform, released the draft calendar ahead of next week’s Workshop on the Proposed Data Protection Regulation to be held by the Civil Liberties, Justice and […]
CPDP 2011 Conference Jan. 25-27 in Brussels, Belgium
Event Name: Computers, Privacy & Data Protection 2011 Date: January 25 – 27 Location: Brussels, Belgium To access this event’s homepage, click here.
EU Data Protection Supervisor's Interview at Hogan Lovells London
Chris participated in an interview presentation with Peter Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor, while in Europe for the IAPP Privacy Congress is Paris last week. Take a look at his blog post with a recap of his observations. EU Data Protection Supervisor’s Interview at Hogan Lovells London European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx traveled in frigid, snowy […]
Cookie Opt-in, Opt-out? How about stepping up?
EU companies are heaving sighs of relief after obtaining some text changes in the EU telecoms package passed this week in Brussels. Concerns that the proposed amendments to the ePrivacy Directive would have required cookies used for secondary purposes to be “opt-in” had trade groups scrambling, but elimination of the words “prior” and “after having […]
A bit more nuance on "opting in" for cookies in Europe
We have received a dozen calls about the new “consent for cookies” language in the amended EU ePrivacy Directive. Most press coverage has focused on a US centric perspective – the law was “opt-out” and now the standard will be “opt-in”! Well, data protection law and policy in Europe is more complicated than opt-in or […]