Joseph D. McClendon

EU and U.S. officials finally unveiled the full text of the proposed EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework earlier this week. The agreement is the culmination of a five-month negotiation to address
Continue Reading The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Agreement Is Unveiled, But Its Effects and Future Remain Uncertain

The French data protection authority (CNIL) is placing Facebook’s EU-U.S. data transfer practices under new scrutiny over its use of the defunct Safe Harbor framework.

The agency issued a two-part
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Businesses that relied previously on the EU’s Safe Harbor exception to transfer data from Israel to the United States have had that authorization revoked by the Israeli Law, Information and
Continue Reading EU Safe Harbor Invalidation Leads Israel to Rescind U.S. Data Transfer Authorization

In an effort to standardize data breach laws nationwide, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn) introduced H.R. 1770 to the House and Energy Commerce Committee this past week. Called the Data Security
Continue Reading New Legislation Aims To Replace State Data Security Breach Notification Laws With Federal Standard