Privacy & EDiscovery

U.S. – EU Safe Harbor Framework News and Views

March 21st, 2012 by Monique Altheim

Pin ItIn 2000, the EU and the U.S. agreed on the Safe Harbor Framework as a means to ensure adequate protection for personal data, transferred from the EU to be processed by U.S. companies. At the recent EU Conference on Privacy and Protection of Personal Data, held in Washington DC, the last panel took the [...]

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EU – US Privacy and Protection of Personal Data: Americans Are from Mars, Europeans Are from Venus

March 21st, 2012 by Monique Altheim

Pin ItThe High Level EU Conference on Privacy and Protection of Personal Data, held on March 19, was organized by the European Commission and hosted by the US Institute of Peace in Washinton D.C. The conference was held simultaneously in Brussels as well, via a video conference link. This conference was meant to deepen transatlantic [...]

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Attention EU Readers of EDiscoveryMap: We are bringing EDiscovery to Brussels on January 26

December 22nd, 2011 by Monique Altheim

Pin It EDiscoveryMap is pleased to announce that Monique Altheim will moderate E-Discovery Sessions at the Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference (CPDP) in Brussels on January 26, 2012. The panels will feature an international roster of thought leaders and practitioners in the field of Cross-Border E-Discovery and EU Data Protection: Willem DEBEUCKELAERE, Privacy Commission (BE), Master [...]

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Privacy and Data Protection Week in Mexico City

November 5th, 2011 by Monique Altheim

Pin It This past week was “Privacy Week” in Mexico City, where three seperate conferences were held back-to-back. The Public Voice conference, chaired by Lillie Coney of EPIC, had as its theme: “Privacy is Freedom” One of the highlights was a discussion between David Benasar, Senior Legal Counsel Aticle 19 and Marc Rotenberg, President of [...]

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The Meaning of “Consent” in the EU Data Protection Framework: A New Article 29 Working Party Opinion

July 15th, 2011 by Monique Altheim

Pin It The Meaning of “Consent” in the EU Data Protection Framework: A New Article 29 Working Party Opinion On July 13, 2011, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (hereafter Article 29 WP ) adopted Opinion 15/2011 on the Definition of Consent. This opinion looks into the legal framework regarding the use of [...]

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Global Data Protection, ECPA and Privacy Policies at the Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference 2011

June 18th, 2011 by Monique Altheim

Pin ItOn June 15, Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor, held a press conference, where he emphasized the importance of the reform of the legal framework for data protection in the EU. One of the many reforms mentioned, was the reinforcing of international instruments in data protection. At the International Data Conference in Budapest on [...]

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The Review of the EU Data Protection Framework v. The State of Online Consumer Privacy in the US

March 17th, 2011 by Monique Altheim

Pin ItYesterday, on March 16, 2011, I had a field day. As an attorney, licensed both in the EU and in the US, with a special interest in privacy law, I was able to observe quasi simultanuous policy making by both Brussels and Washington, D.C. on the same subject matter, from the comfort of my [...]

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Computer, Privacy & Data Protection: European Data Protection: In Good Health? Part 2

January 31st, 2011 by Monique Altheim

Pin ItAccording to its mission statement, the annual conference “Computers, Privacy and Data Protection“ in Brussels aims to create a bridge between policy makers, academics, practitioners and activists, and aims to become Europe’s most important forum for the discussion of data protection and privacy issues. This goal was certainly reached during the panel on Bahavioural Targeting [...]

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The European Data Protection Supervisor recommends a Regulation, not a Directive!

January 18th, 2011 by Monique Altheim

Pin It The European Data Protection Supervisor, Peter Hustinx, has issued an opinion in response to the Commission’s Communication of November 4, 2010 regarding the Review of the Data Protection Legal Framework . The EDPS agrees with the Commission that a review of the present legal framework for data protection in the EU is necessary in order to ensure [...]

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The International Association of Privacy Professionals’ First Europe Data Protection Congress

December 8th, 2010 by Monique Altheim

Pin It I recently attended the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (IAPP) very first Europe Data Protection Congress in Paris on November 29 and 30. The attendee list was impressive: Privacy professionals, employed by Fortune 500 companies from a wide variety of industries, like Hewlett-Packard, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Oracle, Western Union, Microsoft, IBM, Dell, Google, [...]

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