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“Faraway, So Close:” Transatlantic Data Flows and the Protection of Privacy

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

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…