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EU-USA: JUDICIAL REDRESS BILL: Senate Judiciary delays data privacy bill

12 December 2015

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"The Senate Judiciary Committee has pushed consideration of a privacy rights bill that is pivotal to a pair of information-sharing agreements between the United States and the European Union. The legislation would give European citizens the right to take legal action in the U.S. if their personal information is misused. Its passage is a prerequisite to an “umbrella agreement” inked this fall that allows the two governments to exchange more information during terrorist and criminal investigations."

See: Senate Judiciary delays data privacy bill (thehill.com)

And see: Marc Rotenberg President, EPIC Adjunct Professor, Georgetown Law Hearing: "The Judicial Redress Act does not provide adequate protection to permit data transfers and it does not address the many provisions in the Privacy Act that need to be updated."

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