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“We are looking into legal options to resolve this issue.”
– ECR MEP Angel Dzhambazki, who this week found himself at the centre of an Indian disinformation scandal in Brussels.
Story of the week: Researchers have unearthed a widespread, coordinated, and manipulative 15-year-long Indian disinformation operation in Brussels, with the creation of fake media, the revival of defunct think-tanks, and even the fraudulent impersonation of dead people.
Also this week: The latest on the Digital Services Act, MEPs concerned about copyright, auditors probe EU’s 5G goals, France DPA Vs Google, Schrems on US privacy hearing, Scholz on Facebook’s cryptocurrency, Frontex’s biometric tech, Vienna: EU’s spy capital, Romania to host EU cyber centre, EU Algorithm ranking guidelines, Zuboff on Google-Fitbit, German competition crackdown on Facebook, Amazon in the Nordics, and much, much more…
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On Wednesday, December 9, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee held a hearing titled “The Invalidation of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and the Future of Transatlantic Data Flows.” During the hearing, both Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-WA) underscored the need to assess how United States businesses can confidently conduct data transfers in compliance with EU laws as negotiations continue to replace the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement.
The hearing included testimony from James Sullivan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Services at the International Trade Administration (ITA), who indicated that all teams in the ITA’s Office of Digital Services Industries have met, on multiple occasions, with members of the Biden-Harris transition team, and have prepared a transition memorandum on the state of play around the Privacy Shield. Peter Swire of the Cross-Border Data Forum emphasized the need to negotiate a
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Analysis Everyone is in agreement: the United States needs a new federal privacy law, and it needs to be put in place in 2021.
That was the main upshot of a congressional hearing on Wednesday morning looking at the death of Privacy Shield and what America needs to do about it. Privacy Shield, if you can recall, was the doomed regulatory framework governing the way in which companies in the US and European Union shared people s personal information.
The Senate Commerce Committee heard from no fewer than five experts: FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips; president of tech pressure group BSA – The Software Alliance, Victoria Espinel; two law professors, Neil Richards of Washington University and Peter Swire of Georgia Tech; and finally the US Commerce Department’s international trade pointman James Sullivan.
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