Safe Harbor and privacy protection: A looming issue for IT professionals

Mike Markel

doi:10.1109/TPC.2006.870462

Safe Harbor and privacy protection: A looming issue for IT professionals

Mike Markel

Biose State University

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The 25 European Union (EU) Member States require that their residents' personal information not be transferred to countries that do not protect that information adequately. In 2000, the EU ruled that the United States (US), through its voluntary Safe Harbor program, met that requirement. Since that time, however, the EU has charged that many US companies that claim to be in compliance with Safe Harbor policies are not. In this article, I report on a study of the privacy-policy statements of 20 randomly selected US companies that claim to be in compliance. Of the 20, 19 are not in compliance. This study argues that as EU Member States begin to examine Safe Harbor carefully, they are likely to force US companies to adhere to more stringent privacy policies. The burden of this adherence will be borne by US IT professionals.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-11
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Volume	49
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TPC.2006.870462
State	Published - Mar 2006
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Data privacy
Data protection
Department of Commerce
European Commission
Information technology (IT)
International trade
Safe Harbor

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