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Ideal data security would combine the U.S.’s strong...

Ideal data security would combine the U.S.’s strong enforcement efforts with the EU’s legislative efforts, said Jacob Kohnstamm, chairman of the Dutch Data Protection Authority, at a Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) event Wednesday. Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, president of France’s data…

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privacy regulatory agency Commission Nationale de L'Informatique et des Libertés, acknowledged the benefit of industry-set codes of conduct but said governments should set the codes’ “level of demands.” Washington University School of Law professor Neil Richards cited his forthcoming paper in Intellectual Privacy (http://bit.ly/MUFzSP), in which he says, “Despite calls from industry groups and a few isolated academics that [information privacy laws] somehow menace free public debate, the vast majority of information privacy law is constitutional under ordinary settled understandings of the First Amendment.” FPF is an industry-backed privacy advocate group supported by companies including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon; data brokers such as Acxiom and retailers such as Walmart.