Data Protection and Privacy in the United States and the European Union: A Conversation with Julie Brill

Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Speaker
Julie Brill

Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

Presider
Karen Kornbluh

Senior Fellow for Digital Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

Commissioner Julie Brill discusses U.S. and EU efforts to enhance consumer privacy and develop globally interoperable solutions in the digital marketplace, as well as her innovative proposals for updating Internet privacy policy and rebuilding the transatlantic consensus on privacy, at this meeting of the Roundtable Series on Digital Privacy.

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