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November 24, 2015
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EU - US Umbrella Agreement About To Be Concluded: Towards A Transatlantic Approach To Data Protection?

"According to the European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, V�ra Jourov�, the EU and the US have finalized the EU-US Umbrella Agreement. This is a remarkable breakthrough after the first calls for such an agreement back in March 2009, when the European Parliament called for an ""EU - US agreement ensuring adequate protection of civil liberties and personal data protection"". The Umbrella Agreement will complement existing EU-US and Member State-US agreements in the area of law enforcement and put in place a comprehensive high-level data protection framework. It will cover all personal data exchanged by the EU and the US for the purpose of prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of criminal offences - including obviously terrorism."

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November 24, 2015
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DPAs To Announce New Cooperative Arrangement At Conference This Month

"During their ""Fireside Chat"" at Dentons ' offices in London, UK Information Commissioner Christopher Graham and former Interim Canadian Privacy Commissioner Chantal Bernier previewed details of a new cooperation agreement amongst global data protection authorities that will be announced at the Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners Conference in Amsterdam later this month. The Arrangement, as it 's being referred to, creates a common understanding of the obligations of DPAs as they work together, so that separate memorandums of understanding don 't have to be negotiated and signed each time DPAs coordinate on a case. The Arrangement will speed up the ability for DPAs to co-investigate and share information, Bernier noted. This kind of coordination, along the lines of what GPEN has been doing with its privacy sweeps, is something you 'll see much more of in the future, Graham and Bernier agreed, in addition to groups like the Article 29 Working Party and APEC."

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November 24, 2015
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Dataguidance Releases 2015 Global Privacy Enforcement Report

This year's Enforcement Report, prepared by DataGuidance's team of Privacy Analysts in collaboration with their network of legal experts has now launched. Building on their previous two Reports, DataGuidance has expanded its coverage to include a truly global breakdown of the enforcement action taken by national regulators during 2014 in Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, North America and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). As each jurisdiction is unique in terms of legislation and the powers that are afforded to the regulator responsible for privacy compliance, this year's Report includes detailed insight from leading privacy lawyers, selected for their specialised knowledge of the enforcement regimes in place. In addition, it provides analysis into significant DPA decisions and case law, in an effort to unearth the practical reality of privacy risk at a local level.

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