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EU takes search engines to task on data retention

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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European Union
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June 4 2010

The European Union's Article 29 Working Party has sent letters to Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft telling them that they must cease retaining personal data of search engine users for more than six months and must improve their anonymization procedures

EU and US slowly resolving SWIFT dispute

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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European Union, USA
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June 19 2010

Earlier this month, the European Commission adopted another draft agreement between the European Union and the United States that would allow the United States to access financial payment information stored in the EU by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), an international banking consortium

European agency emphasizes importance of smartphone security

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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European Union
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December 25 2010

With the number of cell phone users that talk loudly in public places about the most intimate details of their lives, cell phones are not often thought of as a bastion of privacy

European Parliament seeks crack down on behavioral advertising

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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European Union
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January 1 2011

The European Parliament has issued a resolution calling for tighter regulation of the online advertising industry and better safeguards for consumers

Uruguay's and Israel's data privacy laws: good enough for Europe

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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European Union, Israel, Uruguay
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October 30 2010

For two very small countries, Uruguay and Israel have made big accomplishments in the realm of data security

European disunity not limited to World Cup

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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European Union
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June 26 2010

While France seems on the verge of national implosion as it searches for reasons for Les Bleus' dreadful performance in the group round of the World Cup, the infighting is almost as bad over in Brussels when it comes to sharing data for counterterrorism purposes with the United States

EU revises model contract clauses for data transfers

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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European Union
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February 13 2010

The EU Data Protection Directive restricts transfers of personal data of EU residents to non-EU countries

Will the consent button join the "Like" button in Europe?

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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European Union
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July 3 2010

The income and financial viability of many leading Internet companies -- including Google, Yahoo!, and Facebook, with its hugely popular "Like" button -- are based in large measure on "behavioral advertising," which involves tracking the behavior of individual Internet users over time to develop a profile of their personal preferences and thus to serve online ads tailored to their perceived interests

European Parliament rejects SWIFT's immodest proposal

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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European Union, USA
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February 26 2010

The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to annul a temporary agreement that allowed the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a Brussels-based international banking consortium, to supply financial transaction data to the U.S. Treasury's Terrorist Finance Tracking Program

European Commission releases strategy for revising Data Protection Directive

Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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European Union
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November 13 2010

The EU's Data Protection Directive was enacted in 1995, well before the advent of social networking sites, the ubiquitous tracking of web users and widespread use of geo-location devices, the huge growth of the "surveillance state," "cloud computing," and the explosion of cross-border transfers of electronic data

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