According to the European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, Věra Jourová, the EU and the US have finalized the EU-US Umbrella Agreement (for the press release, see here). This is a remarkable breakthrough after the first calls for such an agreement back in March 2009, when the European Parliament called for an
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Data Collection and Privacy
By Allan Topol on
Posted in Intellectual Property Protection
In view of the importance of privacy issues to readers of GlobalPolicyWatch, we have reprinted below a blog post by Morgan Kennedy from Covington’s Washington office which appeared on the Covington InsidePrivacy blog on September 12.
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