EU-US Privacy Shield or a new era in transatlantic personal data flows

Alert | 20.02.2016

At the beginning of February the European Commission and the United States announced that they had agreed on a new framework for transatlantic personal data flows between the EU and the USA.

EU General Data Protection Regulations

Alert | 13.02.2016

The work on the new EU General Data Protection Regulation is coming to an end. We expect the official text of the GDPR to be adopted by the European Parliament at the turn of March and April 2016.

FRA report: personal data protection in Europe

News | 28.01.2014

The EU's Fundamental Rights Agency has published a report on a survey of personal data protection remedies. The survey indicates the most important problems with bringing claims for infringement of personal data in the EU.

Access to data protection remedies in EU Member States

Publication | 05.01.2014

Technological advances make it ever more important to safeguard the right to personal data, which is enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

Data Privacy - A critical issue for business organisations

Publication | 01.12.2013

Data Protection has been gaining importance amongst the several fields of legislation that have an impact on the core activities of any kind of business and corporation.

In Search of a Transatlantic Data Protection Standard

Publication | 15.06.2013

In this Article, I will examine a phenomenon that I refer to as the privacy paradox (or paradoxes, as I identify several of them). This phenomenon appears in the Euro-Atlantic discussion on privacy and personal data protection.