Cross-Border Data
Has the Time for an EU-U.S. Agreement on E-Evidence Come and Gone?
Kenneth Propp Thu, Jun 2, 2022, 1:33 PM
A legislative deadlock in Brussels risks the future of U.S.-EU negotiations.
Kenneth Propp is senior fellow at the Europe Center of the Atlantic Council, senior fellow at the Cross-Border Data Forum, and adjunct professor of European Law at Georgetown Law. From 2011-2015 he served as Legal Counselor at the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium.
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data
Cultivating Europe’s Data Garden
Kenneth Propp Fri, Mar 4, 2022, 9:01 AM
The European Commission's recently released Data Act is a sweeping proposal to regulate markets for non-personal data with significant consequences for U.S. companies.
Cross-Border Data
Towards OECD Principles for Government Access to Data
Theodore Christakis, Kenneth Propp, Peter Swire Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 3:58 PM
Nascent OECD work to identify principles on government access to data for law enforcement and national security purposes can have important normative significance but also faces political hurdles.
Counterterrorism
A Belated Farewell to (and a Liber Amicorum Honoring) Former EU Counterterrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove
John Bellinger, Kenneth Propp Tue, Nov 2, 2021, 8:01 AM
Some reflections on de Kerchove’s tenure.
Privacy
Progress on Transatlantic Data Transfers? The Picture After the US-EU Summit
Kenneth Propp Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 10:16 AM
President Biden’s June 15 summit meeting in Brussels with EU leadership put cooperation on technology and trade at the forefront of the transatlantic relationship, but it did not yield a breakthrough in the ongoing negotiations to restore data transfers from Europe to the United States to a stable and durable footing.
Artificial Intelligence
Machines Learn That Brussels Writes the Rules: The EU’s New AI Regulation
Mark MacCarthy, Kenneth Propp Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 10:51 AM
Europe’s new AI proposal sets out a nuanced regulatory structure with several important innovations. But the initiative also appears to have some surprising gaps.
Data Protection
How Europe’s Intelligence Services Aim to Avoid the EU’s Highest Court—and What It Means for the United States
Theodore Christakis, Kenneth Propp Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 3:01 PM
The United States now finds itself forced to consider changes to its foreign surveillance law and practices in order to reestablish a stable basis for transatlantic transfers of personal data.