FTC's Brill Says Safe Harbor Negotiations 'More Difficult' With EU

The FTC’s safe harbor negotiations with the European Union have become “more difficult,” FTC Commissioner Julie Brill said at a Direct Marketing Association event Monday (see 1412080061). “Expectations in the European public” are “very high” in terms of “doing away with safe harbor or radically altering it,” she said. “The adults of the room understand the difficult situation that they’ve been placed in and they’re trying to come up with a reasonable way out,” Brill said. But the negotiations are “harder now,” she said.