The European Commission has now published draft texts that could be used to implement an EU/US Privacy Shield to replace the previous Safe Harbor agreement. It appears that the new scheme would only cover "commercial exchanges" of personal data between the EU and US so it is unlikely to be appropriate for export of personal data to US universities or non-profit organi...
Earlier this week Parliament passed the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (...
At last week's Jisc Security Conference I pres...