The European Commission website, in the Article 29 working party page, reports the list of the enterprises that completed the approval process of the BCR according to article 47. The list doesn’t show a reference date and this is certainly remarkable but the most relevant thing is that among the 80+ companies reported in the… Read More: Italy and binding corporate rules (BCR) »
The Commission adopted on 12 July 2016 its decision on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. The decision follows the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union that, on 6 October 2015, had declared the Commission’s 2000 Decision on EU-US Safe Harbour invalid. The article 29 Data Protection working party adopted an opinion about… Read More: The new EU-US privacy shield »
The most important Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, day after day reports headlines concerning the topic “privacy”: on Tuesday 10th an interview with Tim Cook, Apple CEO, where privacy is defined “a right” that Internet companies must respect to avoid a dramatic crisis in the future; the day after, Microsoft’s Nadella declares (see below) that… Read More: Personal data protection in the headlines »
The White House is pushing for a Federal law on privacy: too many different legislations at State level also in the US. Does it sound familiar? Hereafter the draft text (in English only) that is currently being evaluated by the different parties and lobbies. A comparison with the EDPR could be interesting: if someone is… Read More: Mr. Obama’s privacy »
Let me come back to the subjects of Cross Border, Data Governance and Privacy regulations. In my last post I pointed out how the issues of cross border activities in the financial industry and the European rules about Privacy had at least one contact point in the overt need of a well structured, defined, measurable… Read More: Privacy and Cross Border in Banking #2 »
The issue of cross-border banking is one of the major topics of discussion in the European Union at the same level of Privacy. But are the two issues contaminated? Or do they at least present some overlaps? Let me recap some definitions. Oversimplifying, all those issues relating to the reconciliation and mutual adoption of regulatory… Read More: Privacy and Cross Border in Banking #1 »