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The niner noteworthy stories of 2016 (week 24)

These are the noteworthy stories, in no particular order, that peaked my interest last week.

Click here to find out why

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EU/US Privacyshield: one common goal but 180 degree difference in vision

We are registering the start of this century when social media more or less didn’t exist yet, nobody heard of big data and Edward Snowden was still a young man.
At that time it wasn’t hard to see how the European Union and the USA made a gentlemen’s agreement on the processing of personal information in the USA even though the country offered a privacy protection level nowhere close to becoming adequate according to European privacy laws (data protection directive 95/46/EC) on the promise they would behave themselves and companies could be trusted with a self-certification system on which the American FTC (Federal Trade Commission) would keep a close eye. They called it “safe harbour” which lasted for around 15 years.

The adequacy of American data protection hasn’t changed in all these years and with the expected growing protection against unlawful data processing only increasing in the GDPR it will not change in the favour of the American views on privacy anytime soon either.
So why is the privacy shield more a cloak than a protective measure?
Read my analyses here

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GDPR Comprehensive

For the last almost 4 years, the bureaucrats in Brussels have been discussing the way the privacy laws in the European Union should be harmonised. December last year they finally reached agreement on the new general data protection regulation (gdpr) that will, if formally adopted, replace the 95/46/EC data protection directive and all national laws that implemented this directive in their national frameworks.
The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) organised a 2 day training session on the 22nd and 23rd of February to bring me and other privacy pros up to steam on this new opportunity for job security in the coming years.
Read my full report here