The amended Judicial Redress Act has passed the House and is on its way to the president to be signed into law. The Act, which we covered in an earlier blog post, gives citizens of foreign countries the same rights as US citizens in connection with the use by the US government of their personal data,… Continue Reading
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Amended version of Judicial Redress Act passes the Senate; now goes back to the House
Posted in European Union, Judicial Redress Act, Privacy Shield, Safe Harbor, Umbrella AgreementThe US Senate passed the amended version of the Judicial Redress Act on February 9. The amendments, which tie the Umbrella Agreement to Safe Harbor 2.0 (now dubbed the US-EU “Privacy Shield”), now go back to the House for approval. We discussed the amendments in an earlier blog looking at the intersection of security-related and commercial… Continue Reading
Tying it all together: Safe Harbor and Security-Related Data Flows
Posted in EU Data Protection Regulation, European Court of Justice, European Union, Federal Trade Commission, Safe HarborOne of the fascinating aspects of the privacy-related negotiations between the EU and the US over the past couple of years has been the EU’s efforts to decouple trade (e.g, TTIP) and security-related negotiations from the Safe Harbor 2.0 negotiations. The US Senate’s Judiciary Committee pushed back firmly on that yesterday when it adopted amendments… Continue Reading
