Posted on February 21, 2023
BY Peter Swire

Jackson Colling Wins the 2022 CBDF Student Paper Competition

The Cross-Border Data Forum is pleased to announce that the 2022 CBDF Student Paper Competition was won by Jackson Colling, a third-year law student at American University Washington College of Law (WCL). Jackson Colling’s paper is entitled “China’s Personal Information Protection Law: A Threat to Cross-Border Data Flows and the Citizens it is Supposed to Protect,” and the paper is published below. [...]

Posted on February 1, 2023
BY Karine Bannelier

LAWFARE – The U.N. Cybercrime Convention Should Not Become a Tool for Political Control or the Watering Down of Human Rights

CBDF Senior Fellow Karine Bannelier shares some key takeaways from the current round of U.N. cybercrime convention negotiations. [...]

Posted on January 11, 2023
BY Kenneth Propp

LAWFARE – Gentlemen’s Rules for Reading Each Other’s Mail: The New OECD Principles on Government Access to Personal Data Held by Private Sector Entities

The recent OECD declaration demonstrates the surprising degree of commonality in data access safeguards applied by developed democracies’ national security and law enforcement agencies. [...]

Posted on January 6, 2023
BY Karine Bannelier and Anaïs Trotry

What is ‘Data’? Definitions in International Legal Instruments on Data Protection, Cross-Border Access to Data & Electronic Evidence

Karine Bannelier and Anaïs Trotry discuss the definitions of "data" as evidenced in international legal instruments to date. [...]