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- Title: Giving Bite to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Safe Harbor: Model Solutions for Effective Enforcement.
- Author : Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 395 KB
Description
In 1998, the European Union (EU) and the United States (U.S.) set out on an ambitious project to develop a program by which U.S.-based companies could conform to the strict EU data privacy directive when transferring EU citizens' data. In effect, the program sought to reconcile EU and U.S. privacy laws when a U.S.-based company used or transferred EU citizens' data. After two years of negotiations, the U.S. and the EU finalized a program now commonly known as the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor. Yet, since the Safe Harbor's inception, the program has been subject to heavy criticism from privacy advocates and an EU oversight committee. The heaviest criticism is levied against the Safe Harbor's inadequate internal and external enforcement mechanisms.