The Transatlantic Data War
Last October, the European Court of Justice struck down the Safe Harbor agreement, a 15-year-old transatlantic arrangement that permitted U.S. companies to tran…
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Seeking a Safe Harbor in a Widening Sea
In a move that could cost the EU up to 1.3 percent of its gross domestic product, according to the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union, on Oct. 6…
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As Safe Harbour ruled invalid, lawmakers reconsider CISA
"Omer Tene, vice president of research and education at the International Association of Privacy, told SCMagazine.com that the Safe Harbour decision would…
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Local Solutions Key for Companies in U.S-EU Privacy Dispute
"But Aleecia McDonald, a privacy expert at Stanford Law School, said the nature of the dispute indicates an overarching political solution might not be as…
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E.U.'s Sudden Shift on Data Is a Big Headache for Small Marketers
""The big companies have probably been gearing up for this for some time, but for smaller companies, this is, I think, a much greater challenge becaus…
Here’s how the Facebook case has just transformed the surveillance debate
The European Court of Justice, Europe’s highest court, has just shot down the Safe Harbor, an arrangement between the European Union and the United States allow…
Facebook is at the center of a huge privacy controversy. For once, it isn’t Facebook’s fault.
The Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice, the European Union’s closest equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court, has just made a key finding in a court…
Copyright's Digital Deputies: DMCA-Plus Enforcement by Internet Intermediaries
Abstract: In the years since passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), the copyright industries have demanded that online intermediaries — both…
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Germany's privacy leaders gather to discuss suspending US Safe Harbor
""I don't think you can solve intelligence and law enforcement debates with economic legislation," Scott said. "I understand why they ar…
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Content-Sharing Website Veoh.com Entitled to Safe Harbor Under DMCA
Author: José Mauro Decoussau Machado Io produces, markets, and distributes adult entertainment products. In its lawsuit against Veoh, it maintained that a var…