Commerce Sec'y and EU VP Data Protection Progress at Conference

March 21, 2012 by Brian Feito|Other U.S.

Commerce Secretary John Bryson and European Union Commission Vice-President Viviane Reding issued a joint statement in connection with the March 19, 2012 High Level Conference on Privacy and Protection of Personal Data, held simultaneously in Washington and Brussels. The statement noted progress in personal data protection and privacy, in particular the January 25, 2012 adoption by the EU Commission of legislative proposals to reform and unify data protection laws and enforcement rules and the February 23, 2012 release of the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights by the Obama Administration.

According to the statement, stakeholders in the U.S. are very interested in the ongoing data protection reform in the EU, in particular the proposal for a “one-stop-shop” and a consistent regulatory level playing field across all EU member states.

(See ITT’s Online Archives 12022331 for summary of Administration’s Consumer Bill of Rights. See also ITT’s Online Archives 11112223 for summary of November 2011 data protection negotiations between the U.S. and the EU.)