On 8 October, 2013, a group of Social and Democrat MEPs called for the suspension of the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework (the “Safe Harbor”). Their comments, which were triggered by the unauthorized disclosure of document describing a U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program known as “PRISM”, argued that the Safe Harbor is, variously, “misleading,” “vulnerable,&rdquo
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E.U. Commissioner Reding Discusses Privacy
By Libbie Canter on
Posted in European Union, International
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. …