FTC Holding Cross-Border Codes of Conduct Forum on Nov. 29

The Federal Trade Commission recently announced the agenda for its upcoming forum on cross-border codes of conduct. The forum will be an all-day series of panels held on November 29, in the FTC's office on New Jersey Avenue, in Washington, D.C. Although the forum tackles the topic of cross-border codes of conduct generally, and includes topics unrelated to privacy, one of the panels is a case study on Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation's cross-border privacy rules system. This panel will be held from 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., will be moderated by Markus Heyder (Counsel for International Consumer Protection at the FTC), and will include seven panelists from APEC as well as government and the private sector. We wrote about APEC's privacy rules system this past August.      

TIP: The cross-border code system could be a streamlined way for companies to transfer data around the globe. Interested companies might want to attend the November 29 meeting (we will also report on any developments).