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Full-Text Articles in Privacy Law
Privacy In The Age Of The Hacker: Balancing Global Privacy And Data Security Law, Cunningham, Mckay, Mckay Cunningham
Privacy In The Age Of The Hacker: Balancing Global Privacy And Data Security Law, Cunningham, Mckay, Mckay Cunningham
McKay Cunningham
The twin goals of privacy and data security share a fascinating symbiotic relationship: too much of one undermines the other. The international regulatory climate, embodied principally by the European Union’s 1995 Directive, increasingly promotes privacy. In the last two decades, fifty-three countries enacted national legislation largely patterned after the E.U. Directive. These laws, by and large, protect privacy by restricting data processing and data transfers.
At the same time, hacking, malware, and other cyber-threats continue to grow in frequency and sophistication. In 2010, one security firm recorded 286 million variants of malware and reported that 232.4 million identities were exposed. …
Ruling Shows Europe Still Vexed Over Nsa Spying Leaving Us Companies In Legal Limbo, Caren Morrison
Ruling Shows Europe Still Vexed Over Nsa Spying Leaving Us Companies In Legal Limbo, Caren Morrison
Caren Myers Morrison
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European Union Data Privacy Law Developments, W. Gregory Voss
European Union Data Privacy Law Developments, W. Gregory Voss
W. Gregory Voss
This article explores recent developments in European Union data privacy and data protection law, through an analysis of European Union advisory guidance, independent administrative agency enforcement action, case law, and legislative reform in the areas of digital technologies, the internet, telecommunications and personal data. In the first case, Article 29 Working Party guidance on anonymization techniques – so important in the field of big data – is discussed and distinguished from pseudonymization. Next, Google privacy policy enforcement action by various EU Member State data protection agencies (inter alia, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain) is chronicled, with lessons being …
Survey Of Recent European Union Privacy Developments, W. Gregory Voss
Survey Of Recent European Union Privacy Developments, W. Gregory Voss
W. Gregory Voss
The Spanish law implementing the European Union (EU) Data Protection Directive, advisory guidance on consent, facial recognition and biometric technologies from the European Union Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (WP29) , and proposals for EU data protection law reform are analyzed in this survey piece. EU legislative processes are illustrated by a specific occurence: Spanish Organic Law 15/1999 on the Protection of Personal Data is reviewed in the context of Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) joined cases, Asociación Nacional de Establecimientos Financieros de Crédito (ASNEF) v. Administración del Estado, and Federación de Comercio Electrónico y Marketing …
Intrusive Monitoring: Employee Privacy Expectations Are Reasonable In Europe, Destroyed In The United States, Lothar Determann, Robert Sprague
Intrusive Monitoring: Employee Privacy Expectations Are Reasonable In Europe, Destroyed In The United States, Lothar Determann, Robert Sprague
Robert Sprague
This Article examines the contrasting policy and legal frameworks relating to data privacy in the United States and the European Union, with a particular focus on workplace privacy and intrusive surveillance technologies and practices. It examines the U.S. perspective on modern work-related employer monitoring practices, the laws giving rise to possible employee privacy rights, and specific types of employer monitoring that may lead to actionable invasions of employee privacy rights. This article then addresses the issue of employee privacy from the EU perspective, beginning with an overview of the formation of authority to protect individual privacy rights, followed by an …