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| May 8, 2025 | CNBC’s Inside India newsletter: India looks ready for a deal with the U.S. — but at what cost? | Monday - Friday, 11:00 - 12:00 SIN/HK | 0500 - 06:00 CET
India, in fact, is among the countries nearing a trade deal with the U.S. Last week, Trump said that negotiations had been “coming along great ... we’ll have a deal with India.”
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| Feb 19, 2025 | Is It Time For a New Sovereign Cloud Code in Europe? | A new report commissioned by Broadcom is calling for the establishment of a new Sovereign Cloud Code of Conduct to address legal uncertainty surrounding cloud services in Europe.
Authored by Johan David Michels based on research conducted f... |
| Jun 22, 2023 | Tuma raises the largest round for a Congolese fintech startup
TechCabal’s 2021 Year-End report
Success! | Tuma, a Congolese fintech startup, has raised the largest investment round in fintech for the Congolese tech ecosystem ever.
Tuma, a fintech startup in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has raised $500,000 in funding—the largest inves... |
| Oct 21, 2022 | The ‘Three Rs’ of President Biden’s Trans-Atlantic Privacy Outreach | Can President Biden finally resolve America’s privacy conflict with Europe? Only time will tell, but he’s made a good-faith offer that European leaders would be wise to accept.
Ever since the 9/11 attacks, the United States and its European... |
| Jul 19, 2022 | Modularity for International Internet Governance | The modern-day “global” internet faces a dubious future. On the battle lines of internet freedom, Russia’s increasing authoritarian control aspires to China’s great firewall levels, while the annual Freedom on the Net report for 2021 found ... |
| May 26, 2022 | Twitter agrees to pay $150 million to settle allegations that it misused user information for advertising purposes | Twitter released users' contact info for targeted advertising without informing them, the DOJ and FTC said Wednesday.
Twitter agreed to pay $150 million, but the settlement still has to be approved.
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| May 19, 2022 | Privacy Shield 2.0 —Third Time’s the Charm? | In March, European Union President Ursula von der Leyen and U.S. President Joe Biden announced that they had agreed to a Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework. This follows nearly two years of negotiations, across two U.S. administrations, ... |
| Feb 28, 2022 | Европейские альтернативы американским интернет-сервисам | Зашифрованное хранилище файлов CryptDrive.cz (Чехия)
Судя по последним событиям, Евросоюз начал по-взрослому давить на Google, Facebook и другие американские компании, которые собирают персональные данные европейских граждан и отправляют в ... |
| Jan 18, 2022 | CobbleStone Software Finishes 2021 With Record-Breaking Growth for CLM Digital Transformation | "We are excited to extend the success of 2021 in 2022 and beyond with our CobbleStone community. We plan to further corporate growth and innovation to provide CLM tools to automate, streamline, and simplify clients' processes." – ... |
| Aug 30, 2021 | CobbleStone® Receives Highest Score Possible in Scalability & Security Criterion in CLM Software Report by Independent Research Firm | We at CobbleStone are honored to receive the highest score possible in the Scalability and Security criterion of The Forrester Wave™: Contract Life Cycle Management For All Contracts, Q1 2021 – which recognizes us as a Leader in CLM softwar... |
| Aug 9, 2021 | CobbleStone® Software Secures Privacy Shield Credential | "Our partnership with the Privacy Shield Framework highlights our dedication to the security of our clients' data - as we continue to provide them with the best CLM tools to address their evolving source-to-contract management software... |
| Jun 15, 2021 | New Standard Contractual Clauses approved by EU – and what they mean for UK businesses | The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) made headlines when introduced in 2018, and led to significant changes to how UK businesses handle data. This year – and even though the UK has left the EU – there are new EU data rules com... |
| Mar 8, 2021 | How Europe’s Intelligence Services Aim to Avoid the EU’s Highest Court—and What It Means for the United States | As a result of last summer’s Schrems II judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the United States now finds itself forced to consider changes to its foreign surveillance law and practices in order to reestablish a sta... |
| Feb 17, 2021 | Data Privacy Day: Here's What The EU's Schrems II Decision Means For US Companies | CEO and Co-Founder of one of the first enterprise data privacy management platforms, BigID, and a privacy and identity expert. |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Commission Report on Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century | Hearings on Competition and Consumer
Protection in the 21st Century
The FTC's Role in a Changing World
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
October 2020
Joe Simons Chairman
Noah Joshua Phillips Commissioner
Rohit Chopra Commissioner
Rebecca Kelly Slaug... |
| Nov 27, 2020 | Microsoft's New 'Productivity Score' Faces Heavy Criticism for Allowing Bosses to Track Employees Without Them Knowing | CJ Robles, Tech Times 27 November 2020, 12:11 am
Microsoft's new "Productivity Score" feature that allows employers track their worker's use of tools attracted criticisms from privacy experts since its launch in November 17.
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| Nov 24, 2020 | Democratic Source Code for a New U.S.-EU Tech Alliance | Code is law. Lawrence Lessig’s 1999 assertion was that in a digital world, programmers were scripting a values system into their technology, often in a fit of absent-mindedness. Twenty years later, the U.S. and Europe are living in the geop... |
| Jul 29, 2020 | What Does Schrems II Mean for the U.K.? | Maximillian Schrems is two-for-two. Or, as Austrian complainant Schrems puts it, “The Court clarified for a second time now that there is a clash between EU privacy law and US surveillance law.”
Thanks to a different legal challenge from Sc... |
| Jul 23, 2020 | EU Privacy Shield Ruling Is an Opportunity and Conundrum for Decentralized Tech | Last week the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) struck down a key data-sharing agreement between the United States and European Union, with possible implications for U.S. blockchain companies that serve EU customers.
The 2016 ag... |
| Jul 21, 2020 | How Can the U.S. Respond to Schrems II? | The decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Schrems II is gobsmacking in its mix of judicial imperialism and Eurocentric hypocrisy. The decision invalidates the Privacy Shield agreement between the U.S. and the EU o... |
| Jul 17, 2020 | Geopolitical Implications of the European Court’s Schrems II Decision | On July 16, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated one principal legal method for the transfer of personal data from EU territory to the United States and cast substantial doubt on the validity of the other.
U.S. inte... |
| Jul 16, 2020 | Europe’s top court strikes down flagship EU-US data transfer mechanism | A highly anticipated ruling by Europe’s top court has just landed — striking down a flagship EU-US data flows arrangement called Privacy Shield.
“The Court of Justice invalidates Decision 2016/1250 on the adequacy of the protection provided... |
| Dec 24, 2019 | European Court of Justice Opinion Clouds Future of Transatlantic Commercial Data Transfers | On Thursday, Dec. 19, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a long-awaited preliminary opinion on whether U.S. surveillance laws violate the fundamental rights of individuals whose personal data are transferred across the... |
| Dec 23, 2019 | Foreign Intelligence and Other Issues in the Initial Opinion in Schrems II | On Dec. 19, Advocate General (AG) Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe issued a long-awaited initial opinion in the “Schrems II” case before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The case concerns the legality of transferring personal data... |
| Dec 19, 2019 | More legal uncertainty for Privacy Shield ahead of crux ruling by Europe’s top court | Facebook tried to block the referral but today an influential advisor to Europe’s top court has issued a legal opinion that could have major implications for the future of the EU-US Privacy Shield personal data transfer mechanism.
It’s a co... |
| Oct 17, 2019 | Revisiting Legacy Restrictions on the Intelligence Community’s Handling of SIGINT Data on Non-Americans | Why are U.S. intelligence agencies still applying extraordinary safeguards to the incidentally collected communications of Chinese, Russian and Iranian citizens as well as the nationals of EU allies that refuse to offer similar privacy prot... |
| Jul 15, 2019 | Road to Adequacy, Part II: Can California Apply Under the U.S. Constitution? | Since it took effect in 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has become one of the toughest data privacy regimes in the world. The regulation imposes strict obligations on how entities process, control and transfer personal d... |
| Jun 4, 2019 | Facebook Fails To Block EU Court Case That Could Rule Against Most Transatlantic Data Flows | Last August, we wrote about the latest development in an important case moving through the EU’s legal system. At risk is the huge volume of data that flows from the EU to the US, currently authorized by the Privacy Shield scheme. The origin... |
| Jun 4, 2019 | Facebook fails to stop Europe’s top court weighing in on EU-US data transfers | Facebook has failed in its last ditch attempt to block a referral by Ireland’s High Court of questions over the legality of EU-US data transfer mechanisms to the region’s top court.
Ireland’s Supreme Court unanimously refused its request to... |
| Apr 22, 2019 | Road to Adequacy: Can California Apply Under the GDPR? | Background
Earlier this year, the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, recognized Japan’s data protection regime as adequate under the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Japan is now treated as part... |
| Jan 3, 2019 | Cross-Border Privacy Rules in Asia: An Overview | The United States, Canada and Mexico recently completed negotiations on a new trade agreement, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), to supersede NAFTA. While the treaty is pending ratification in the legislative bodies of the ... |
| Sep 2, 2018 | Privacy Shield on Shaky Ground: What’s Up With EU-U.S. Data Privacy Regulations | There’s a lot going on in the privacy and data protection world. But one of the most pressing issues is the uncertain fate of Privacy Shield, the framework governing the flow of data between the EU and the U.S. for commercial purposes.
The ... |
| Jul 5, 2018 | EU parliament calls for Privacy Shield to be pulled until US complies | The European Parliament has been making its presence felt today. As well as reopening democratic debate around a controversial digital copyright reform proposal by voting against it being fast-tracked, MEPs have adopted a resolution calling... |
| May 25, 2018 | Sorting Through GDPR: What to Watch After May 25 | May 25 is an important day. The shroud of uncertainty surrounding the General Data Protection Regulation implementation this Friday smacks of Y2K thrill. What is in store for us in a post-GDPR world?
First off, no, the GDPR is not the new a... |
| Apr 18, 2018 | EU Court of Justice Will Answer Questions on Facebook Data Transfers | On April 12, the High Court of Ireland referred 11 questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding the legality of data transfers between Facebook’s Irish and U.S. corporate entities. This request for a preliminary ruling ... |
| Apr 5, 2018 | Australia latest to open probe into Facebook data scandal | Australia’s privacy watchdog has opened an investigation into Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal.
Yesterday Facebook revealed that more users than previously thought could have had their personal information... |
| Mar 1, 2018 | Summary: The EU General Data Protection Regulation | After four years of negotiation, the European Parliament approved the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on April 14, 2016. Enforcement is scheduled to begin May 25. This post provides a high-level summary of what the GDPR requires, ... |
| Nov 30, 2017 | No Privacy Shield, No Parachute?: The Brexit Cliff Edge and Data Regulation | Recent weeks have seen turmoil for Theresa May and her government. International Development Secretary Priti Patel and Defense Secretary Michael Fallon both resigned, and First Secretary of State Damian Green is under investigation for alle... |
| Nov 27, 2017 | Expensify sent images with personal data to Mechanical Turkers, calls it a feature | Enlarge / Would you let this guy handle your benefit and business expenses? reader comments 46 with 28 posters participating
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| Nov 21, 2017 | Data Privacy Startup WireWheel Secures $3.1M Seed Round | Arlington, Va.–based WireWheel.io has secured $3.1 million in seed financing, which the company predicts will usher in a generation of tools to address the federal mandates around data privacy. WireWheel.io is planning an expansion, and is ... |
| Nov 21, 2017 | Data Privacy Startup WireWheel Secures $3.1M Seed Round | Arlington, Va.–based WireWheel.io has secured $3.1 million in seed financing, which the company predicts will usher in a generation of tools to address the federal mandates around data privacy. WireWheel.io is planning an expansion, and is ... |
| Nov 21, 2017 | Data privacy startup WireWheel secures $3.1M seed round | Arlington, Va.–based WireWheel.io has secured $3.1 million in seed financing, which the company predicts will usher in a generation of tools to address the federal mandates around data privacy. WireWheel.io is planning an expansion, and is ... |
| Nov 14, 2017 | WireWheel.io Raises $3.1M in Seed Round Led By PSP Growth and NEA | WireWheel.io, the developer of an innovative cloud-based data privacy and protection platform, announced today it has completed a $3.1 million seed round of financing. PSP Growth, the venture and growth equity arm of PSP Capital, a private ... |
| Oct 25, 2017 | The European Commission’s Privacy Shield Review Summarized | On Oct. 18, the European Commission (EC) released its report on the first annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, the agreement that ensures privacy protections for cross-border transfers of European data, or data concerning ... |
| Oct 10, 2017 | U.S. Criticism of China’s Cybersecurity Law and the Nexus of Data Privacy and Trade Law | China has made rapid progress over the past two years towards developing a legal framework governing cyberspace. There are at least 14 laws, regulations, guidelines, national strategies, and standards implementing President Xi Jinping’s dic... |
| Jun 13, 2017 | Europe’s DP chiefs fire warning shots ahead of first EU-US Privacy Shield review | Europe’s data protection chiefs have fired a warning shot across the bows of the executive body of the Union ahead of the first annual review of the EU-US Privacy Shield.
The data transfer framework, which was agreed in February 2016 and op... |
| Apr 6, 2017 | EU-US Privacy Shield remains precariously placed | The EU-US Privacy Shield appears to be weathering the storm of a Trump presidency — for now. But it could take just a single stroke of Trump’s pen to bring the entire arrangement toppling down.
The data transfer agreement, which seeks to br... |
| Mar 20, 2017 | Trump's Social Media Plan: Problematic Law and Policy, Pointless Security | A month ago, the legislative text of “Visa Investigation and Social Media Activity Act of 2017” (VISA Act) was released. The bill requires, among other things, that background checks for visa applications of alien admission to the U.S. incl... |
| Mar 7, 2017 | Confirmit Closes Out Milestone Year with Record Sales, Continues Momentum into 2017 | Company announces exceptional Q4, operational uptime, customer and partner wins
London, UK, Oslo, Norway and New York, NY, 7 March, 2017 – Confirmit has reported that it achieved the highest annual sales in the company's history for 2016, r... |
| Feb 23, 2017 | Trump and the EU-US privacy shield laws | Andrew Burt Contributor
Andrew Burt is the chief privacy officer at Immuta.
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Steven Touw is the co-founder and chief technology officer at Immuta.
On January 25, the Trump administration injected a whole new level of ... |
| Jan 26, 2017 | Trump order strips privacy rights from non-U.S. citizens, could nix EU-US data flows | An Executive Order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump in his first few days in office could jeopardize a six-month-old data transfer framework that enables EU citizens’ personal data to flow to the U.S. for processing — with the promise ... |
| Jan 17, 2017 | The Economic Case for Preserving PPD-28 and Privacy Shield | As the new administration takes office this week, we will start to see just how literally to take Donald Trump's pronouncements and the promised targeting of his predecessor’s executive orders for immediate destruction. Trade policy appoint... |
| Jan 12, 2017 | Report: EU unhappy with US response to Yahoo email scanning scandal | The European Union is not happy with the explanation provided by the US Government for why its domestic spy agencies co-opted Yahoo to scan all emails of users of its webmail service during a six month period in 2015, Reuters is reporting.
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| Oct 27, 2016 | EU-US Privacy Shield data transfer deal faces legal challenge | The European Commission’s newly minted data-sharing arrangement with the U.S. — the EU-US Privacy Shield — is facing a legal challenge on privacy grounds.
Reuters reports that privacy rights organization Digital Rights Ireland has filed a l... |
| Sep 15, 2016 | EU-US Privacy Shield – one month on | EU-US Privacy Shield – one month on
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Not so long ago...in October 2015, the European Court of Justice held that the Safe Harbour framework (which had facilitated data transfers for the last 15 years) was contrary to EU privacy law... |
| Sep 14, 2016 | Why Obama Should Pardon Edward Snowden | I have signed on to the letter asking President Obama to pardon Edward Snowden that was released today. I know this will be an unpopular position among many of my former colleagues in the national security community. My reasons for doing so... |
| Sep 8, 2016 | Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: An Interview with Scott DePasquale | The podcast is back with a bang from its hiatus. Our guest, Scott DePasquale, is the CEO of Utilidata, an electric utility IoT and cybersecurity company. Scott talks about his contribution to the Internet Security Alliance’s upcoming book, ... |
| Sep 7, 2016 | Microsoft opens its UK data center region to Azure and Office 365 customers | Microsoft today announced that its U.K. data center region is now online. The new region, which the company announced last November, currently offers support for Microsoft’s Azure cloud services and Office 365, with support for Dynamics CRM... |
| Aug 30, 2016 | Kaltura One of First Companies to Comply with EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework | Tuesday, August 30, 2016 |
| Aug 10, 2016 | The EU Privacy Shield one week in: A privacy exec’s perspective | The privacy community was abuzz this past week, as the new Privacy Shield Framework opened for business. On August 1, companies could begin self-certifying under this new program, which replaced the 15-year-old EU Safe Harbor Framework gove... |
| Aug 10, 2016 | The EU Privacy Shield one week in: A privacy exec’s perspective | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The privacy community was abuzz this past week, a... |
| Aug 1, 2016 | EU-US Privacy Shield open for sign ups from today | U.S. companies needing to transfer personal data of European customers across the Atlantic can now sign up to a new framework to govern such data transfers, with the so-called EU-US Privacy Shield up and running from today.
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| First Privacy Shield Guidelines for Companies published by German DPA | On September 12, 2016, the Data Protection Authority of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (“DPA NRW”) became one of the first EU data protection authorities to issue guidance on the implementation of the Privacy Shield. Alt... |
| 10 companies that Accenture Interactive could acquire under new CEO David Droga as it looks to expand its ad business | Accenture Interactive CEO David Droga. John Lamparski/Getty Images for Advertising Week New York This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Meta угрожает отнять у европейцев Facebook и Instagram | Александра Кукуть 7 февраля 2022, 12:44 2022-02-07 Meta угрожает отнять у европейцев Facebook и Instagram
На прошлой неделе Meta представила катастрофический отчёт за 4 квартал и 2021 год — после него компания за день потеряла почти $240 мл... |
| Meta не планує залишити Європу без Facebook та Instagram | Meta не планує залишити Європу без Facebook та Instagram
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Meta спростувала інформацію про наміри припинити роботу Facebook та Instagram, яка поширюється в ЗМІ. У своєму офіційному повідомл... |
| EU-U.S. Privacy Shield: Companies Can Now Certify | As of, August 1st, 2016, U.S. companies can now join the Safe Harbor successor EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (the “Privacy Shield”) for personal data transfers from the EU to the U.S.
This post gives a high level summary of what companies should c... |
| The European Commission Adopts the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework | The European Commission today approved the long-awaited framework for data transfers to the United States.
What is the decision about?
Today's decision means that organisations subject to the GDPR can benefit from an adequacy decision for t... |