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.
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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.
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On February 12, 2015, the International Association of Privacy Professionals (“IAPP”) will host a web conference on The Role of Risk Management in Data Protection – From Theory to Practice. Panelists will include Bojana Bellamy, President of the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams (“CIPL”), Fred Cate, Senior Policy Advisor of CIPL, and Hilary Wandall, Associate Vice President, Compliance and Chief Privacy Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. Together, they will lead an online discussion on some of the key considerations in risk assessment and management.
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The EU-U.S. Privacy Bridges Project recently met in Washington, D.C. and Brussels. The Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams attended these meetings where the group discussed developing practical solutions for bridging the gap between EU and U.S. privacy regimes and legal systems.
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On November 18, 2014, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams held the second workshop in its ongoing work on the risk-based approach to privacy and a Privacy Risk Framework. Approximately 70 Centre members, privacy regulators and other privacy experts met in Brussels to discuss the benefits and challenges of the risk-based approach, operationalizing risk assessments within organizations, and employing risk analysis in enforcement.
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Hunton and Williams LLP’s Centre for Information Policy Leadership is pleased to announce that its president, Bojana Bellamy, has been selected to participate in the Privacy Bridge Project, a new transatlantic initiative aimed at developing practical solutions to bridge the gap between European and U.S. privacy regimes.
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On December 12, 2013, Fred H. Cate, Senior Policy Advisor in the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton and Williams LLP submitted its comments in response to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework.
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On October 4, 2013, The Centre for Information Policy Leadership published a report reviewing the events and discussions that took place during the 35th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Warsaw, Poland. This blog entry provides a link to the full report on the Conference.
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