We are very proud to report that today, the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) awarded our very own Chris Wolf with its Privacy Vanguard Award, provided to an individual who has shown exceptional leadership, knowledge and creativity in the field of privacy and data protection.
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Influential OECD Report Sets Out Future Challenges for the Digital Economy
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has published its 2015 Digital Economy Outlook (“Report”), a survey of changes and opportunities in, and challenges arising from, the digital economy. The Report identifies three broad trends for member countries and their partners to focus on in digitising their economies.
Hogan Lovells Contributes Focus on Privacy and Trade to Global Privacy Meeting
At the 35th annual Conference of Data Protection Authorities and Privacy Commissioners in Warsaw, Poland today, Hogan Lovells partner and privacy practice lead Christopher Wolf spoke on the issue of privacy and trade in light of the ongoing Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations between the EU and the U.S. This post contains prepared remarks to the commissioner’s on the need for interoperable cross-border privacy standards and the merits of the U.S. privacy regime.
OECD Issues Revised Privacy Guidelines: Focus on Need for Interoperability
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released a revision of its 1980 Privacy Guidelines. The fundamental elements of the original guidelines, the Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs), remain in place, but the OECD recognizes the revolutionary changes in technology since the first OECD Guidelines, and the importance of the digital economy and […]