Hunton Privacy

APRIL 8, 2014

On December 12, 2013, the Court’s Advocate General delivered his opinion that the Directive is incompatible with the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. The case was referred to the European Court of Justice by senior Austrian and Irish courts for a preliminary ruling. View the full text of the judgment.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 7, 2014

GPEN conducted its first annual enforcement sweep in 2013 , focusing on online transparency regarding organizations’ privacy practices. On May 6, 2014, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada announced the Global Privacy Enforcement Network’s (“GPEN’s”) second annual enforcement sweep.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 14, 2014

The Federal Trade Commission recently acted on three industry proposals in accordance with the new Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (the “COPPA Rule”) that came into effect July 1, 2013. On February 12, 2014, the FTC announced that it approved a safe harbor program submitted by the kidSAFE Seal Program (“kidSAFE”).

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 30, 2014

The EU Sub-Committee on Home Affairs, Health and Education of the UK House of Lords has published its Second Report for 2013-14, entitled EU Data Protection Law: A ‘Right to Be Forgotten’? Costeja (Case C-131/12, “ Costeja ”). the “Report”).

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

On February 12, 2014, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) issued the final Cybersecurity Framework , as required under Section 7 of the Obama Administration’s February 2013 executive order, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (the “Executive Order”).

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 12, 2014

With many observers expecting little legislative activity on cybersecurity before the end of the year, however, that Congress has passed and sent major cybersecurity legislation to the White House for the first time in 12 years may signal Congress’ intent to address systems protection issues more thoroughly in the next Congress.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 3, 2014

If you’re wondering what’s made me feel this way, a couple of choice articles from 2013 (and there were too many to count) should do the trick. And 12 months from now, everyone will be tweeting about how Twitter has run out of ideas. Related: Predictions 2013. 2013: How I Did. Sound familiar, Facebook?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Each year around this time I look back at the predictions I made 12 months ago , and I score myself with some combination of objectivity and defensiveness. And 12 months from now, everyone will be tweeting about how Twitter has run out of ideas. The post My Predictions for 2014: How’d I Do? 750, depending on how you keep score.

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