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Pulling Back the Curtains on Privacy and the U.S. Intelligence Community: A New Retrospective by Alex Joel

To help pull back the curtains on privacy, civil liberties, transparency, and the U.S. intelligence community, the Cross-Border Data Forum is pleased to republish this retrospective by Professor Alex Joel, which was originally published by Privacy Across Borders and is reprinted here with permission of same.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A Strategic Transatlantic Partnership? Opportunities and Hurdles for EU-US Regulatory Cooperation in the Digital Sphere

A wide range of mechanisms can be used to promote transatlantic regulatory cooperation in the digital sphere.
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