Oct 272015

Europe Needlessly Endangers Its U.S. Digital Links

Alan Charles Raul
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This piece originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal on October 25, 2015.

As the world’s privacy commissioners gather Monday in Amsterdam for their annual conference, they face a data-flow dilemma that is roiling international commerce.  The predicament is the result of a ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union and the United States that facilitates the trans-Atlantic flow of digital information …Read More.

Alan Charles Raul

Washington, D.C., New York

araul@sidley.com

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