Keynote on the conference „New Directions in Cyber Security“ Berlin, 1 October 2015 Safe Harbor - No Future? How the General Data Protection Regulation and the rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will influence transatlantic data transfers Ladies and gentlemen, One week ago, the Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued his ...

By Peter Schaar (translated by Douwe Korff) This article is a free translation of my comment for the German news service Heise Online The judgment of the CJEU on compulsory data retention is remarkable for two reasons. First, the Court essentially agrees with the critics of data retention: The general, suspicionless retention of telecommunication data is incompatible with both ...