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Testimony @ House Energy And Commerce Subcommittee On Digital Commerce And Consumer Protection Hearing; "21st Century Trade Barriers: Protectionist Cross Border Data Flow Policies Impact On U.S. Jobs.", Jennifer Daskal Oct 2017

Testimony @ House Energy And Commerce Subcommittee On Digital Commerce And Consumer Protection Hearing; "21st Century Trade Barriers: Protectionist Cross Border Data Flow Policies Impact On U.S. Jobs.", Jennifer Daskal

Jennifer Daskal

Ttestimony at House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Hearing; "21st Century Trade Barriers: Protectionist Cross Border Data Flow Policies Impact on U.S. Jobs." October 12, 2017

"The free movement of data across borders is critical to economic growth, has benefits for data security, and promotes privacy, speech, and associational rights. Yet, increasingly states are adopting a range of measures that restrict data flows to the United States and elsewhere and adopting costly data localization mandates, pursuant to which companies must store data locally.1 Such restrictions on the free movement of data harm U.S. business interests, …


Brief Of Amici Curiae Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic) And Thirty-Six Technical Experts And Legal Scholars In Support Of Petitioner.Pdf, Jennifer Daskal Aug 2017

Brief Of Amici Curiae Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic) And Thirty-Six Technical Experts And Legal Scholars In Support Of Petitioner.Pdf, Jennifer Daskal

Jennifer Daskal

Brief of Amici Curiae Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic) and Thirty-Six Technical Experts and Legal Scholars in Support of Petitioner, in Carpenter v. United States, No. 16-402 (SCOTUS Aug. 14, 2017).


Privacy Law's Precautionary Principle Problem, Adam Thierer Feb 2017

Privacy Law's Precautionary Principle Problem, Adam Thierer

Maine Law Review

Privacy law today faces two interrelated problems. The first is an information control problem. Like so many other fields of modern cyberlaw—intellectual property, online safety, cybersecurity, etc.—privacy law is being challenged by intractable Information Age realties. Specifically, it is easier than ever before for information to circulate freely and harder than ever to bottle it up once it is released. This has not slowed efforts to fashion new rules aimed at bottling up those information flows. If anything, the pace of privacy-related regulatory proposals has been steadily increasing in recent years even as these information control challenges multiply. This has …