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EU Report on Safe Harbor
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:39:17 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Joel Reidenberg <reidenberg () sprynet com> Date: October 23, 2004 3:37:02 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: ip () v2 listbox com Subject: EU Report on Safe Harbor Reply-To: reidenberg () sprynet comThe European Commission has just released a “Staff Working Document” that reports on the implementation of the EU Data Privacy Directive’s Safe Harbor Agreement with the United States. This report was based on a soon-to-be released comprehensive study conducted for the Commission by an international team of researchers (Yves Poullet, Jan Dhont, Maria Veronica Perez Asinary from the Centre de Recherches Informatique et Droit at the University of Namur, Belgium, Lee Bygrave at the University of Oslo, Norway and myself). While both our study and the Commission’s staff paper found significant levels of non-compliance with the Safe Harbor by self-certified companies, the Commission has taken a conciliatory approach and not called for the termination of the Safe Harbor Agreement. (Staff Report at: http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/privacy/docs/adequacy/sec -2004-1323_en.pdf. Safe Harbor Agreement Implementation Study to be released at: http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/privacy/index_en.htm.)
In going forward, many Safe Harbor companies will need to make significant improvements in the substance of their privacy policies to meet safe harbor standards and will need to make their privacy policies publicly available.
Regards, Joel Of possible interest: Privacy Wrongs in Search of Remedies , 54 HASTINGS L. J. 877 (2003) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=434585States and Internet Enforcement, 1 Univ. of Ottawa J. L. & Tech. 213 (2004)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=487965 ******************************************** Joel R. Reidenberg Professor of Law Fordham University School of Law 140 West 62nd Street New York, NY 10023 Tel: 212-636-6843 Fax: 212-636-6899 Email: <reidenberg () sprynet com> Web page: <http://reidenberg.home.sprynet.com> ******************************************** ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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