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Privacy Law

2002

Data privacy

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The European Union Data Privacy Directive And International Relations, Steven R. Salbu Jan 2002

The European Union Data Privacy Directive And International Relations, Steven R. Salbu

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Article explores the European Union Data Privacy Directive and its impact upon international relations. Part II provides a background upon which the Privacy Directive is built. In Part III, the Article confronts the differences between how the United States and its European counterparts address privacy issues generally. Part IV analyzes the Privacy Directive in detail, while Part V explores possible effects that the Privacy Directive might have on international relations.

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The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Jolina C. Cuaresma Dec 2001

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Jolina C. Cuaresma

Jolina C. Cuaresma

In the fall of 1999, President Clinton signed into law the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act. Twenty years later, this statute still governs how financial institutions use consumer data. The statute represents the first (and only) federal law that gives consumers privacy protection over nonpublic personally identifiable information. This paper examines a number of GLBA provisions and demonstrates that consumers do not control the terms under which their financial information is used. While the GLBA was an important first step in obtaining some level of information privacy, this paper argues that Congress undoubtedly placed a …

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