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Episode 222: In which I get to play that guy in line for the movie with Woody Allen

Our interview is with Megan Stifel, whose paper for Public Knowledge offers a new way of thinking about cybersecurity measures, drawing by analogy on the relative success of sustainability initiatives in spurring environmental consciousness. She holds up pretty well under my skeptical questioning.

In this week’s news, Congress and the Executive branch continue to fight over the bleeding body of ZTE, which has already lost nearly 40% of its market value. The Commerce Department has extracted a demanding compliance and penalty package from the Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer. The Senate, meanwhile, has amended the NDAA to overturn the package and re-impose what amounts to a death penalty (see section 1727). Brian Egan and I dig into the Senate’s language and conclude that it may do a lot less than the Senators think it does, and that may be the best news ZTE is going to get from Washington this year.

Judge Leon has approved the AT&T-Time Warner merger. Gus Hurwitz puts the ruling in context. His lesson: next time, the Justice Department needs better evidence.…

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Episode 218: The Mugshots.com Case: California Crazy Meets European Crazy

In this episode, Markham Erickson highlights the Mugshots.com prosecution. The site had a loathsome business model, publishing mugshots for free and charging hundreds of bucks to people who wanted the record of their arrests taken down. Now the owners are being prosecuted in a case…

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on May 25, 2018.

The GDPR makes many important changes to European Union (EU) data protection law, but it is not a complete departure from existing principles. Many of the concepts with which organizations are familiar will continue to apply under the GDPR. Thus, the…

On 10 January, the Belgian Gazette published the Law of 3 December 2017 “setting up the authority for data protection” (the Law).

The Law is the first legal text in Belgium applying various provisions of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Under the GDPR, EEA Member States must provide for one or more independent…

In its judgment of January 26, the European Court interpreted EU rules on jurisdiction in a dispute referred from the Austrian Supreme Court between a ‘consumer’ – Maximilian Schrems – and Facebook Ireland Limited.

The Court would not accept the consumer’s choice of forum for a class-action type proceeding and held that, when interpreting EU…

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will apply to businesses operating in the EU from 25 May 2018 – in 100 days’ time.

Senior Commissioners Ansip (Digital Single Market) and Jourová (Justice) yesterday announced guidelines and other materials to “facilitate a direct and smooth application of the new data protection rules across the EU…

The Global Reach of GDPR – Steptoe Webinar Series

As the deadline approaches for the EU General Data Protection Regulation to take effect, please join us for Part I of a Steptoe webinar series titled “The Long Arm of the New EU Data Protection Jurisdiction” on Wednesday, December 6 from 5:00 – 6:00 pm CET. …