Privacy protection is “mission critical” at the FTC,...
Privacy protection is “mission critical” at the FTC, Commissioner Julie Brill told the Mentor Group Forum for EU-US Legal-Economic Affairs in Brussels, according to a copy of her remarks (http://1.usa.gov/YQKEiN). The address played up the common aspects of European and…
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U.S. privacy policies. She said a draft EU privacy regulation reflects common ground with the U.S. on many key issues such as promoting privacy by design, protecting kids’ privacy, strengthening data security and giving consumers appropriate access correction and deletion rights to their information. “The particular solutions we develop may differ, but the challenges we face and our desire to solve them are the same,” she said. But cross-border data transfers is an area where U.S. and EU policies diverge, she said. “I know there are many who believe the gap between the EU and U.S. privacy regimes is growing,” she said. “Although the U.S. may for historic reasons approach privacy through our different legal tradition -- one that uses a framework approach, backed up by strong enforcement -- I believe this approach achieves many of the same goals as those embraced by EU data protection authorities."