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JurisTalk | The Transatlantic Flow of Data

October 23, 2014 at 3:30 PM

Location:D492 Loeb Building
Cost:Free
Audience:Anyone
Key Contact:Prof. Stacy Douglas
Contact Email:stacy.douglas@carleton.ca

The Transatlantic Flow of Data and the National Security Exception:

In Search of Legal Protection Against Surveillance

with Ioanna Tourkochoriti

Europeans regulate data privacy against violations coming from the private sector more strictly than in the U.S. This paper analyses these existing protections through the Safe Harbor Agreement and the New European Regulation. It suggests ways of interpreting the national security exception in a way as to narrow its scope in reference to standards posed by the European Court of Human Rights in Europe and the International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights. The paper also argues for the creation of new treaties to fill legal gaps in the protection of transfer of data through Cloud computing.

Ioanna Tourkochoriti is a Visiting Professor, and a legal scholar working in the field of human rights, constitutional law, comparative law, international law, antidiscrimination law, philosophy of law, as well as political and moral philosophy. She is currently working on a book project comparing U.S., Canadian and E.U. Employment Discrimination Law. She has been a Fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, a Lecturer on Law and Social Studies at the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University, as well as a Fellow with the Rule of Law Collaborative at the University of South Carolina.