With the EU Data Protection Regulation enacted and due to come into force in May 2018, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams and AvePoint have launched a global survey to enable organizations to benchmark their readiness for the GDPR. This blog post contains a link to the survey. … Continue Reading
Recently, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP co-hosted a one-day workshop in Amsterdam with the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice, as part of its kick off of CIPL’s new long-term project on the implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation. This blog entry provides highlights on the project and a link to its workshop report.… Continue Reading
AvePoint has joined forces with the Centre for Information Policy Leadership, a global privacy policy think tank at Hunton & Williams LLP, to launch the first global survey to benchmark organizations’ readiness for the GDPR.… Continue Reading
On March 17, 2016, Bojana Bellamy, President of the Centre for Information Policy Leadership, participated on a panel of experts at a hearing in front of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs about the new EU-U.S. Privacy Shield for commercial transfers of EU personal data to the U.S. … Continue Reading
On March 16, 2016, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP will co-host a workshop in Amsterdam, Netherlands, together with the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice, to kick off a new long-term project on the implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.… Continue Reading
During last week’s APEC privacy and e-commerce meetings in Lima, Peru, the APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance established its 2nd APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance Expert Council. The ECBA Expert Council is comprised of 32 e-commerce experts from government, academia and the private sector in the APEC region.… Continue Reading
On January 28, 2016, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership held a special roundtable at Hunton's Brussels office to examine the "essential equivalence" requirement for protection of data transfers to non-EU countries set by the Schrems decision. … Continue Reading
On February 22, 2016, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership, together with TRUSTe, the Information Accountability Foundation and Information Integrity Solutions, will co-host a workshop on Building a Dependable Framework for Privacy, Innovation and Cross-Border Data Flows in the Asia-Pacific Region in Lima, Peru. … Continue Reading
On November 20, 2015, Markus Heyder, Vice President of the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP, discussed how “transparency is increasingly understood as a core component of addressing the challenges of the modern information economy” and a key catalyst for a productive and innovative information economy in an article entitled Transparency and the Future of Driverless Privacy published by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. … Continue Reading
In late October, the Brazilian Ministry of Justice (the “Ministry”) issued its revised Draft Bill for the Protection of Personal Data (“Draft Bill”). The Ministry released its preliminary draft in January 2015, and the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP (“CIPL”) filed public comments to the draft on May 5, 2015.… Continue Reading
On November 2, 2015, Hunton & Williams LLP’s Centre for Information Policy Leadership Senior Policy Advisor, Fred H. Cate, moderated an academic panel on The Data Dilemma: A Transatlantic Discussion on Privacy, Security, Innovation, Trade, and the Protection of Personal Data in the 21st Century.… Continue Reading
On October 27, 2015, Hunton & Williams LLP’s Centre for Information Policy Leadership will conduct a joint workshop with Nymity on Bridging Disparate Privacy Regimes through Organizational Accountability during the 37th International Privacy Conference. The Centre for Information Policy Leadership also has released two draft white papers in a series of three on protecting privacy in a world of big data.… Continue Reading
Today, the EU-U.S. Privacy Bridge Initiative, a group of transatlantic privacy experts that was convened in April of 2014, released its report on Privacy Bridges – EU and US Privacy Experts in Search of Transatlantic Privacy Solutions.… Continue Reading
On October 6 and 7, 2015, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP and the Instituto Brasiliense de Direito Publico will co-host a two-day Global Data Privacy Dialogue in Brazil.… Continue Reading
On September 29, 2015, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP (“CIPL”), a global privacy policy think-tank based in Washington D.C. and London, hosted a webinar on The Ins and Outs of the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (“CBPR”) and their Role in Enabling Legal Compliance and International Data Transfers.… Continue Reading
The APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules system for information controllers received a significant boost during the recent APEC privacy meetings in the Philippines when APEC finalized a corollary certification scheme for information processors, the APEC Privacy Recognition for Processors.… Continue Reading
On August 20, 2015, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams (“CIPL”) filed comments to the Indonesian Draft Regulation proposed by the Minister of Communication and Information (RPM) of the Protection of Personal Data in Electronic Systems. The comments were limited to the issue of cross-border data transfers and were submitted in … Continue Reading
On August 29, 2015, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams will host a half-day workshop on the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules and their role in enabling legal compliance and international data transfers.… Continue Reading
On July 1, 2015, Peter Hustinx, who recently retired as the European Data Protection Supervisor, was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science in Social Science by the University of Edinburgh.… Continue Reading
In an article published in the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ Privacy Perspective, entitled Empowering Individuals Beyond Consent, Bojana Bellamy and Markus Heyder of the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams argue that consent is no longer the best or only way to provide control and protect individuals.… Continue Reading
On June 11 and 12, 2015, Asia Pacific Privacy Authority (“APPA”) members, invited observers and guest speakers from the government, private sector, academia and civil society, met in Hong Kong to discuss privacy law and policy issues at the 43rd APPA Forum. At the end of the open session on day two, APPA issued its … Continue Reading
On June 24, 2015, DataGuidance will host a complimentary webinar on Brazil: Towards Privacy Compliance, and the panel of speakers includes Bojana Bellamy, President of the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams. This blog entry provides a link to register for the event.… Continue Reading
The Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams filed comments on Brazil's draft law "on the processing of personal data to protect the personality and dignity of natural persons," focusing on key issues in the context of global privacy policy and practice.… Continue Reading
In a recent article published in the International Association of Privacy Professionals' Privacy Perspectives, Hunton & Williams partner Manuel Maisog explains why lessons from China's past show that its future should have little room for data localization. This blog entry provides a link to the full article.… Continue Reading
