EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding is in the U.S. this week and was scheduled to meet with Attorney General Eric Holder on ways the U.S. and E.U. can cooperate on protecting consumer data.

Commissioner Reding also met with the Washington Post‘s Cecilia Kang to discuss the relationship between E.U. and U.S. conceptions of privacy.  They discussed the “right to be forgotten” — an idea that Commissioner Reding introduced last month.  Commissioner Reding explained that a person’s data should belong to him or her, not a commercial entity or the state, and emphasized the importance of being able to delete data stored online or port it to another online platform.  While data portability is a popular concept in the U.S., Commissioner Reding’s conception of data ownership is not universally adhered to in the U.S

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Libbie Canter represents a wide variety of multinational companies on privacy, cyber security, and technology transaction issues, including helping clients with their most complex privacy challenges and the development of governance frameworks and processes to comply with global privacy laws. She routinely supports…

Libbie Canter represents a wide variety of multinational companies on privacy, cyber security, and technology transaction issues, including helping clients with their most complex privacy challenges and the development of governance frameworks and processes to comply with global privacy laws. She routinely supports clients on their efforts to launch new products and services involving emerging technologies, and she has assisted dozens of clients with their efforts to prepare for and comply with federal and state privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act and California Privacy Rights Act.

Libbie represents clients across industries, but she also has deep expertise in advising clients in highly-regulated sectors, including financial services and digital health companies. She counsels these companies — and their technology and advertising partners — on how to address legacy regulatory issues and the cutting edge issues that have emerged with industry innovations and data collaborations.

As part of her practice, she also regularly represents clients in strategic transactions involving personal data and cybersecurity risk. She advises companies from all sectors on compliance with laws governing the handling of health-related data. Libbie is recognized as an Up and Coming lawyer in Chambers USA, Privacy & Data Security: Healthcare. Chambers USA notes, Libbie is “incredibly sharp and really thorough. She can do the nitty-gritty, in-the-weeds legal work incredibly well but she also can think of a bigger-picture business context and help to think through practical solutions.”