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[U.S. PIRG Consumer Blog] House committee claims stronger Euro privacy rules are "burden ...: "We appreciate the interest of the United States Congress in the very important issue of Internet privacy. [...] TACD is therefore somewhat surprised by what appears to be an effort to call into question the purpose and “burden”

[Tech Progress] Global Privacy Groups Condemn Industry's Proposed Behavioral ...: However, in an open letter to top government officials in both the United States and Europe, the TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), composed of groups like the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Public Citizen, and the Center for .

[Digital Rights Watch] U.S. and European Consumer Groups Encourage Congress to ...: The TACD letter pointed out that "US privacy laws lag woefully behind current technology and business practices" and encouraged Congress to "learn from a fair and balanced review of the EU Data Directive, just as the EU .

[IP Policy Committee blog] IP Policy Committee blog » Blog Archive » EU Challenge for ACTA ...: Since the 70's, some European countries have adopted domestic law that regulates the processing of personal data. Starting in the 90?s, the European Union has approved several directives that provide a communitarian legal .

[Digital Rights Watch] US and European Consumer Groups Oppose Latest Industry Proposal ...: The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue has sent a letter to U.S. and European Union officials, urging them to reject an advertising industry proposal to protect online privacy through self-regulation. The industry proposal relies on .

[NCL's Savvy Consumer Blog] Reporting from Brussels: TACD bridging Atlantic on consumer ...: The forum is intended to bring together US and EU consumer organizations to provide a consumer perspective and input to government officials on issues as diverse as product safety, privacy, food safety, financial services, and intellectual property. There's a Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue that has a .

[LLRX.com - Privacy] CongressLine - The EU Privacy Protection Directive and the U.S. ...: thus preventing data blockages against U.S. companies which are in compliance with the safe harbor. The federal agency charged with enforcing the safe harbor agreement is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) - an enforcement action will be brought by the FTC against any company which represents that it is in compliance with the safe harbor and then proceeds to misuse consumer information.

[prbuilder.com] Online Privacy Advocates Charge Congress With "Digital ...: “Given the widespread agreement across consumer organizations in both Europe and the United States that the United States lacks adequate privacy safeguards and that the US privacy laws lag woefully behind current technology and business practices, we expected a hearing that would focus on the lessons that the Congress might draw from the EU experience with data protection,” wrote Julian Knott, TACD head of secretariat on behalf of the TACD steering committee.

[charm origin blog] EPIC – Air Travel Privacy: Specifically, senators asked about the adequacy of privacy safeguards for the body scanners, database profiling, biometric identification, and the status of the President’s Civil Liberties and Privacy Oversight Board. According to documents obtained by EPIC through a Freedom of Information Act request, the body scanners ordered by the TSA are designed to store and record images of American air travelers.

[Johnnymore's blog] Fact Sheet on the United States' Relationship with the European ...: The U.S. and the EU have reached several agreements governing DHS collection of PNR, the most recent one in July 2007, being applied provisionally. We remain confident that both sides will seek to ensure that the U.S. and EU retain the means necessary to share and analyze information about terrorists and other dangerous individuals effectively, while ensuring robust protections of privacy and civil liberties.

[Intellectual Property Watch] EU, US Consumer Groups Issue Resolution On Enforcement ...: TACD wants future negotiations to be respectful of civil liberties such as the right to privacy and also demands the inclusion of developing countries in ACTA negotiations as the stated intention is to extend and apply the treaty to them. The resolution offers recommendations to ensure IP enforcement policies and practices address issues such as transparency, evidence and process, competitiveness, consumer protection, human rights, access to knowledge, and digital rights.

[ZeroPaid.com] Consumer Groups Want to Halt ACTA Negotiations: It’s not clear what effect this will have on ACTA negotiations, but leaks from the negotiations have painted a startling picture about ACTA which included calls for seizing portable information devices at the border and copying the contents to search for possible pirated material (a provision that was later denied by officials saying that this was inaccurate) Then again, if ACTA is so innocent and something we shouldn’t be worried about, why is there so much secrecy in the first place?

[Food Safety News] World Coalition Demands Less Antibiotics on Farms: In 2006, the European Union forbid the use of most growth-promoting antibiotics in feed. Sweden banned the use of antimicrobials in feed without veterinary prescription in 1986, and Denmark outlawed all non-therapeutic antibiotics for food animals.

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