Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
This article co-authored with guest blogger Peter Wainman, a partner with Mills & Reeve LLP
Transfers of personal data from most European countries to the U.S. have been exposed to legal attack since October 2015, when privacy campaigner Max Schrems successfully sued the Irish authorities over data transfers made by Facebook Ireland. The main objection…
Bitstamp, the third largest Bitcoin exchange in the world and located in Luxembourg, announced on April 25, 2016, that it has obtained a payment institution license from Luxembourg, which means it is the first nationally licensed Bitcoin exchange in the world.
The license was obtained through the European Union’s passport program, which gives reciprocity for…
The European Court of Justice, (the EU’s highest court), ruled on Tuesday, October 6th that the safe harbor pact between the EU and the U.S. should be declared invalid because it fails to provide adequate protection for EU citizens’ data. The ruling follows Advocate General Yves Bot’s opinion (covered here) two weeks ago…
