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31/03/2021
Would a US federal privacy law re-establish trusted EU-US data flows?
You might be aware that early last month US Congresswoman Suzan DelBene, Representing Washington’s 1st District, introduced the Information Transparency and Personal Data Control Act – in her words “legislation that would create a national data privacy standard to protect our most personal information and bring our [US] laws into the 21st Century.” Important aspects of the Information Transparency and Personal […]
16/12/2019
Brexit and data protection: What’s next?
On 12 December 2019 in the UK general election, Boris Johnson secured his position as UK Prime Minister, with his Conservative party winning its first substantial majority in decades. The results of the election have set the way for the UK to exit the European Union by its scheduled exit date of 31 January 2020. The […]
09/12/2018
5th EDPD Plenary Session: EU-Japan draft adequacy decision, DPIA lists, Artile 43 GDPR
The 5th EDPD Plenary Session took place last week on 4 and 5 December 2018. Main points of the agenda included the EU-Japan draft adequacy decision, the adoption of opinions on the Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) lists submitted by Denmark, Croatia, Luxembourg and Slovenia, and the revision of the Article 29 Working Party guidelines on accreditation. […]
20/07/2018
Europe and Japan to speak the same privacy language
On 17 July 2018, the EU and Japan announced the conclusion of discussions on reciprocal adequacy of their legal systems, agreeing to create the world’s largest area of safe data flows. You can read the official press release here. The successful conclusion of the EU-Japan data protection-related talks is very good news for everyone. It […]
13/05/2018
#CoE Treaty No.108: Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data
The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers has approved the modernisation of Treaty No. 108, Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data. The amending protocol will be formally adopted next week by the Committee of Ministers during their annual ministerial session on 18 May 2018 in Elsinore (Denmark). In it’s Summary Report on co-operation between […]
14/12/2016
International trade agreements: Let’s talk about the exchange of personal data
The EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement/Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which was originally set to be approved by the end of this year after talks officially began in 2013, has recently been met with criticism from members of the European Commission’s DG Justice and Consumers and Members of the European Parliament following a request from Japanese negotiators […]