Privacy is a primary concern for citizens today. Yet many of us willingly share vast quantities of personal information with private companies and on social media platforms even though they offer few safeguards. Cloud technology, for example, enables the storage of vast quantities of information – personal files, tax returns, family pictures, – while social media encourages us to express…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a lecture by Thomas Wischmeyer, the Deutsches Haus at NYU DAAD Visiting Fellow, on "Faraway, So Close: Transatlantic Data Flows and the Protection of Privacy." In the 1990s and early 2000s many scholars predicted a convergence of privacy law in the EU and the U.S. They have been proven wrong. What we have witnessed is not the emergence…
Max Schrems, whose lawsuit against Facebook prompted the European Court of Justice to strike down the previous Safe Harbor agreement between the European Union and the United States, will speak with a panel of NYU professors at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. SPACE IS LIMITED. If you want to come, RSVP to european.studies@nyu.edu. Here's the lineup: Max Schrems, Founder…