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April 6, 2005, at 4:45 p.m.
University Events Room
Glickman Family Library, 7th floor
Portland USM Campus (map)

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Following the terrorist attacks of September, 2001, the U.S. required airlines to provide the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reservation information about passengers to arrive on international flights. This conflicted with European Union law which prohibits transfers of personal data from Europe to any country, like the U.S., whose protection for privacy fails to meet European standards. After lengthy negotiations, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (which includes the CBP) made commitments to protect passenger privacy which became the basis for an agreement with the EU allowing the data transfers to continue through the end of 2007. The agreement is unpopular in Europe and has been challenged in court by the European Parliament. The author evaluates the U.S. commitments in the light of EU law and similar systems which scrutinize data of arriving passengers in other countries. There also is consideration of privacy implications of proposed U.S. screening systems known as Registered Traveler and Secure Flight.
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Professor Manny regularly attends international conferences of privacy professionals. He has lectured on privacy law at a university in Belgium and his articles have appeared in journals in Europe as well as the US. He has presented papers on international law before professional organizations including the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, the North Atlantic Regional Business Law Association, and the Mid-Atlantic Academy of Legal Studies in Business. He is past president of the North Atlantic Regional Business Law Association and serves on the editorial board of the Business Law Review. During the 1980s, he served as a consultant to the Maine governor's economic development strategy task force. Before coming to USM, professor Manny practiced law as a shareholder in a medium-sized law firm in Portland.

Professor Manny received an AB in History from Harvard University in 1971, and earned a JD from Boston University in 1975.

The colloquium is sponsored by the L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Endowed Chair in Accounting.

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USM Professor Jeffrey Gramlich was appointed the first L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Chair in Accounting in the USM School of Business in 2003. His appointment was made possible by a $1 million gift from L.L. Bean, Inc., its board chair, Leon Gorman, his wife Lisa, Jim and Maureen Gorman, and Tom Gorman, who established the chair in memory of L.L. Bean CFO Lee Surace '73, '81, who died in March of 2001. Surace was chair of the USM School of Business' Advisory Council and was a frequent guest lecturer.

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