Today, the Article 29 Working Party (the advisory body on data protection and privacy composed of representatives from the national data protection authorities of all EU Member States) was to meet in Brussels to discuss, amongst other things, the consequences of the European Court of Justice ruling of 6 October 2015 in the Maximilian Schrems case, with EU-US data flow at the top of its agenda.
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On November 19, Foley Hoag and UK Trade & Investment presented a webinar discussing the latest developments following ECJ’s decision to invalidate the US-EU Safe Harbor system. Watch the recording here:
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The scaffolding of the FTC’s powers in the realm of cybersecurity continues to be built. On Monday, the FTC’s Chief Administrative Law Judge D. Michael Chappell issued an initial decision in the FTC’s closely watched enforcement action against LabMD. The case involves a 2008 incident in which a data security company (Tiversa Holding Co.) discovered a LabMD document containing personal information of 9,300 patients was available on a P2P file sharing network. … More
I had the pleasure of moderating an excellent panel at the Advanced Cyber Security Center’s annual conference on November 4. The panel’s topic for discussion was “What is Reasonable in Cybersecurity: Responsibility and Accountability for Cybersecurity Practices.” I learned a great deal from our excellent panelists, Gus Coldebella (Fish & Richardson), Deborah Hurley (Harvard University), and John Krebs (Federal Trade Commission), as well as from the audience’s questions.… More