Statement on Safe Harbor for House Judiciary Committee Hearing
On November 3, 2015 to the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet conducted a hearing on International Data Flows: Promoting Digital Trade in the 21st Century. Nuala O’Connor and Greg Nojeim submitted this Statement for the Record of the hearing.
The hearing explored the implications on trans-Atlantic commercial data flows of the Court of Justice of the European Union judgment in the Schrems case, which invalidated the EU-US Safe Harbor arrangement. O’Connor and Nojeim call for reforms to U.S. surveillance and privacy laws that must be made in order to ensure the viability of any future Safe Harbor agreement between the U.S. and the E.U.
British Public Oppose Secret Surveillance Powers and Want Strong Protections for Encrypted Communications
CDT released nationally representative polling data revealing that a the British public are broadly concerned about the security, privacy, and free speech consequences of allowing law enforcement to access encrypted communications.
Responding to the EU-US Negotiations on Reciprocal Data Exchanges for Border Procedures
CDT Europe, together with 29 other civil society organisations and academics, sent an open joint letter to the Council of the EU regarding the worrying direction taken by the European Commission in the EU-US border negotiations with the U.S. government.
Open Joint Letter on a Public Reassessment of the EU-US Adequacy Decision
On 29 June, the US Supreme Court ruled that US President Trump can remove the leaders of independent agencies and commissions, overturning nearly 90 years of precedent limiting executive power. This decision raises serious questions about one of the key safeguards underpinning the EU-US Data Privacy Framework adopted in 2023: independent supervision.
Return of Mass Scanning of Private Communications through Undemocratic Procedure
CDT Europe responds to the European Parliament's vote to revive the interim derogation from the ePrivacy Directive, commonly known as “Chat Control 1.0”, which provides the legal basis for the voluntary, indiscriminate scanning of private communications for known and new Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), and for the solicitation of children.
