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iiclr-17750	Castor, David A.	Treading Water in the Data Privacy Age: An Analysis of Safe Harbor's First Year	2002	28	.pdf	application/pdf	14296	876	61	A. Review of the First Year: U.S. Companies React to Safe Harbor On the opening date of the program, many felt that U.S. companies would be slow to join. In order to maintain the transfer of data from European nations to U.S. companies, the Department of Commerce initiated negotiations with the EU in 1998.73 Throughout the negotiations, both the U.S. and the EU were in agreement that levels of U.S. privacy protection needed improvement.74 Both parties, however, continued to disagree on the nature of the improvement, each holding to their privacy policy approaches.75 While the EU continued to call on the U.S. to enact federal legislation governing commercial entities' use of personal information transferred from EU Member States, the Department of Commerce continued to hold to its industry self-regulation approach.76 simply calls for the Data Exporter and the Data Importer to undertake the transfer process in accordance with the basic protection rules provided for in the Directive.	cache/iiclr-17750.pdf	txt/iiclr-17750.txt