Pepper partner William M. Taylor will be moderating a panel discussion on the Safe Harbor Framework. The panelists will discuss details of the new Privacy Shield Agreement, the changes it entails and the implications for the U.S. and E.U. businesses & investors.
Key topics include:
- What U.S. companies need to know about the safe harbor/Privacy Shield framework, if and when implemented
- Self-certification, and additional oversight and enforcement mechanisms
- New disclosures of the uses of personal data, data collection and the identities of third parties with whom the data is shared
- The use of third party dispute resolution bodies and their enforcement authority
- Greater oversight of the actual implementation of the framework undertakings by the certifying entity
- Other approaches to transatlantic data transfers
- Advantages and disadvantages of Model Contracts and Binding Corporate Rules as an interim compliance measure, and their administrative challenges.
- The extraterritorial approach of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the resulting liability and business practice obligations.
- The need to start planning for the new rules now, in parallel with any Privacy Shield planning and implementation
- Insights into the approval process and the chance that a challenge to the Shield in the European Court of Justice could be successful.
Moderator
William M. Taylor, Partner, Pepper Hamilton
Panelists
Krystin Jenci, Director of the Office of Digital Services Industries (ODSI), Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration
Laura Liguori, Partner, Portolano Studio Legale
Daniel Rücker, Practice Group IT, Outsourcing & Data Privacy Partner, Noerr LLP
Thomas Zych, Partner, Thompson Hine
Pepper Hamilton is a founding sponsor of the EACCNY.