New Article in ABA Antitrust Magazine Contrasts EU-US Proposals for New Privacy Framework

"[P]olicymakers around the world are re-examining the legal framework that regulates the collection, use, sharing, and storing of personal information––making more robust the protections afforded to such information, and increasing the legal obligations of business. The privacy frameworks recently proposed by the European Commission, the White House, and the FTC seek more protection of individuals, and are founded on the same underlying principles of fairness. However, despite common foundations, the privacy regimes from opposite sides of the Atlantic exhibit fundamental differences in approach and substance. "

"As things now stand there is a big gap to bridge between the two trans-Atlantic approaches.  Both are, in many ways so close, yet very far apart in fundamental respects."

Authored by HL Chronicle of Data Protection Team.