SWIFT Privacy: Data Processor Becomes Data Controller
am 13.05.2007 von Law & JusticeLast month, SWIFT emphasised the urgent need for a solution to compliance with US Treasury subpoenas that provides legal certainty for the financial industry as well as for SWIFT. SWIFT will continue its activities to adhere to the Safe Harbor framework of the European data privacy legislation. Safe Harbor is a framework negotiated by the EU and US in 2000 to provide a way for companies in Europe, with operations in the US, to conform to EU data privacy regulations.This seems to conclude a complex privacy case, widely covered by the US and European media.A fundamental question in this case was who is a data controller and who is a mere data processor. Both the Belgian and the European privacy authorities considered SWIFT, jointly with the banks, as a data controller …
ECJ Annuls EU-US Data Sharing Agreement
Law & Justice / The European Court of Justice has annulled an EU-US agreement on EU handovers of air passenger data to US security agencies, and dismissed the European Commissions assurance that Washington could provide necessary privacy protection for such data.…
The Future of Privacy
Law & Justice / Bruce Schneier published a very interesting essay on his blog The Future of Privacy where he also refers to privacy legislation in the European Union: (...) Were never going to stop the march of technology, but we can enact legislation to protect o…
American Companies Are More Advanced in Personal Information Protection
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Access to Data at ISP
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EU Passes Controversial Data Retention Directive
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Privacy International
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / Privacy International (PI) is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations. PI is based in London, England, and has an office in Washington, D.C. PI has conducted campaigns a…
Invasive, Illusory, Illegal, and Illegitimate
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / Privacy International responds to the European Commission on Data Retention. Background and comment by Karl Friedrich Lenz.…
Die Erde mal aus einer anderen Perspektive
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