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The European Commission has now published draft texts that could be used to implement an EU/US Privacy Shield to replace the previous Safe Harbor agreement. It appears that the new scheme would only cover “commercial exchanges” of personal data between the EU and US so it is unlikely to be appropriate for export of personal […]
At the LINX meeting yesterday I was invited to summarise the various Parliamentary Committees’ reports on the draft Investigatory Powers Bill. For more detail, see Graham Smith’s excellent commentary. All three reports find problems, though the pattern has changed from four years ago when the predecessor Communications Data Bill was considered. In 2012 the most […]
The Article 29 Working Party of European data protection supervisors had hoped to make a full statement on the EU/US Safe Harbor agreement at the end of January. However this has now been postponed, probably until mid-April. The European Court of Justice declared last October that the original Safe Harbor did not guarantee adequate protection […]
[this article is based on the draft text published by the European Council on 28th January 2016. Recital and article numbers, at least, will change before the final text] The final version of the Data Protection Regulation’s breach notification proposals has addressed many of my concerns with the original draft. Rather than applying the same […]