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The Digital Download | Posted: January 11, 2016
Summary Sentence:
Debate continues about transfer of personally identifiable information between EU and US.
Full Summary:
Peter Swire -- associate director of policy at the Institute for Information Security & Privacy and the Huang Professor of Law and Ethics at the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech -- challenges European activist Max Schrems to a debate about the Safe Harbor Agreement in Brussels, Belgium.
Professor Peter SwireSince the European Court of Justice ruled on Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner that personally identifiable information cannot be transfered between the EU and United States, Georgia Tech's Peter Swire has challenged the factual basis underpinning that decision. He will debate privacy activist Max Schrems on January 26, 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. Swire -- who is the associate director of policy at the Institute for Information Security & Privacy and the Huang Professor of Law and Ethics at the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech -- plans to argue that the ECJ decision “suffers from particular inaccuracies concerning the law and practice of U.S. foreign intelligence law.” More recently, Swire authored a white paper through the Future of Privacy Forum about the conequences of the Schrems judgement.
Read more in The Digital Download Privacy & Security Monthly Newsletter
Listen to a recording of the debate.
