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FRA Pushes Alternatives to Asylum-Seeker Detention
October 15, 2015
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights ("FRA") has published guidance to EU member countries on alternatives to detaining asylum seekers and people who have sought and failed to obtain asylum within their territory.
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MEP Seeks Stronger Framework to Replace "Safe Harbor"
October 15, 2015
Member of the European Parliament ("MEP") Sophie in ‘t Veld has called on the European Commission to use the Court of Justice of the EU's invalidation of the US-EU "Safe Harbor" data framework as an opportunity to impose stronger restrictions on transatlantic data transfers.
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UK Euroskeptics Launch "Vote Leave" Campaign
October 15, 2015
A wide-ranging group of euroskeptics in the UK, including business leaders and politicians, has launched a "Vote Leave" campaign that is prepared to campaign for Britons to vote to leave the EU if the campaign views Prime Minister David Cameron's negotiated reforms with the bloc as insufficient.
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Epstein Criticizes ECJ Data Decision
October 14, 2015
Professor Richard Epstein of New York University School of Law argues that the Court of Justice of the EU's ("ECJ") invalidation of the EU-US Safe Harbor data-transfer framework was flawed, as the ECJ did not consider the reliance interests of thousands of companies and pointed to "no evidence of concrete abuse."
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ECJ Decision Complicates Company Employment Policies
October 14, 2015
Attorneys from Littler Mendelson have outlined the complications caused by the Court of Justice of the EU's invalidation of the EU-US "Safe Harbor" data transfer framework to multinational companies that store data on their employees in the US.