In the article U.K.’s Post Brexit Strategy on Cross-Border Data Flows, CBDF Research Director Peter Swire provides insight regarding the recent announcements by the U.K. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and how these announcements intersect with Brexit and the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Schrems II. In addressing this recent activity by the U.K. government, Mr. Swire provides insight into the recent developments between the U.S. and EU following Schrems [...]

In “Avoiding the Next Transatlantic Security Crisis: The Looming Clash over Passenger Name Record Data,” Kenneth Propp examines how Passenger Name Record data may become another area for EU/U.S. negotiations about the handling of personal data.  In summary, the article states: [...]

This post was originally published by about:intel, and is reprinted here with the permission of same. 11. June 2021 Recent reports of Danish intelligence cooperating with the U.S. National Security Agency in monitoring undersea cables in 2012-14 have briefly pushed Edward Snowden’s revelations back into the news, but the more significant development is change in the legal landscape for bulk surveillance on both sides of the Atlantic.  While the United States government has definitively discontinued a controversial telecommunications metadata collection program exposed [...]