Privacy & EDiscovery

Computer, Privacy & Data Protection: European Data Protection: In Good Health? Part 2

January 31st, 2011 by Monique Altheim

Pin ItAccording to its mission statement, the annual conference “Computers, Privacy and Data Protection“ in Brussels aims to create a bridge between policy makers, academics, practitioners and activists, and aims to become Europe’s most important forum for the discussion of data protection and privacy issues. This goal was certainly reached during the panel on Bahavioural Targeting [...]

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Federal Court in NY Says EU Documents Containing Personal Information are Off Limits in Class Action Litigation

September 15th, 2010 by Monique Altheim

Pin ItThis post was written by Kevin Xu and John L. Hines, Jr. U.S. courts often disregard foreign data privacy laws in the context of discovery. Litigants sometimes find themselves compelled to produce under U.S. law what they are forbidden to produce under the privacy laws of another country. However, a recent U.S. court decision [...]

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IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2010 – Hot Topics : Robert Rothman on the New EU Controller-to-Processor Model Clauses

April 24th, 2010 by Monique Altheim

Pin It At the recent IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C., many hot topics were addressed: Privacy by Design, Behavioral Advertising, the new EU Cookie Consent Law, the Smart Power Grid, the Cloud, Web 2.0, the new EU Model Clause Agreements, Controllers, Processors and Sub-Processors, the recent Google convictions, to name just a few. [...]

Tags: controller to processors, Cross Border, cross border data flow, cross border ediscovery, EU, EU Commission, European Union Data Protection, global, international, model clauses, Personal Data, personal data protection, Privacy Associates International, Robert Rothman, standard contractual clauses. Conferences,Cross Border Data Flow,European Union Data Protection,Online Privacy Closed

E-Discovery Challenges in China

April 14th, 2010 by Monique Altheim

Pin Itby Kevin Lo A complicated international anti-dumping case brought several U.S. lawyers and a team of e-discovery experts to a large industrial town in northeast China. They had come to interview senior executives and conduct a search of paper and electronic records at a major pharmaceutical company. During negotiations for the trip, the company [...]

Tags: China, Cross Border, cross border ediscovery, cultural differences, e-discovery, EDD, EDiscovery, global, international. EDiscovery,Online Privacy Closed

EU Cross Border Ediscovery, Standard Contractual Clauses, and Sub Processors: What Will Change on May 15, 2010?

March 26th, 2010 by Monique Altheim

Pin ItHow the New EU Rules on Data Export Affect Companies in and outside the EU by Dr. Thomas Helbing On 5 February 2010 the Commission of the European Union (EU) has updated the set of standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to processors in non-EU countries. The old clauses are repealed [...]

Tags: adequate level, Cross Border, cross border ediscovery, data controller, data processor, e-discovery, EDiscovery, EU, EU Commission, European Union Data Protection, Personal Data, personal data protection, privacy laws, SaaS, Safe Harbor, standard contractual clauses. Cross Border Data Flow,European Union Data Protection,Online Privacy 1 Comment

The French Data Protection Authority: Video Surveillance Images are “Personal Data”

March 19th, 2010 by Monique Altheim

Pin ItPOSTED ON MARCH 16, 2010 BY HUNTON & WILLIAMS LLP In a decision handed down on February 25, 2010, the French Constitutional Court ruled that the right to privacy derives from Article 2 of the Declaration of Human Rights, and is therefore considered a constitutional right under French law. The Court also ruled that the legislature [...]

Tags: Cross Border, data privacy, Data Protection Authority, e-discovery, EDiscovery, EU, European Union Data Protection, France, global, Personal Data, video surveillance images. European Union Data Protection,Online Privacy Closed

Musings on The Deep Cultural Divide between The US Ediscovery Tradition and The EU Privacy Protection Principles

March 2nd, 2010 by Monique Altheim

Pin Itby Chris Dale I expressed puzzlement recently at the high proportion of page views from the US over a period when most of my focus has been on the UK draft practice direction. I know, of course, that there is much US interest in developments in other jurisdictions, particularly the UK, and there is [...]

Tags: anonymisation, blocking statutes, Cross Border, data privacy, e-discovery, EDiscovery, EU, FRCP, Jim Daley, pension committee, personal data protection, The Hague Convention, The Sedona Conference WG6. EDiscovery,European Union Data Protection,Online Privacy Closed

Video is “Personal Data” under EU Data Protection Laws- Cross Border Ediscovery Implications of The Google Three Case

March 1st, 2010 by Monique Altheim

Pin ItThis week, an Italian magistrate convicted three Google employees for an Internet video that none of them had produced, uploaded, or even seen. The case arose from an Italian video that was uploaded in 2006 to Google Video, which showed a disabled child being bullied by other schoolchildren. An advocacy organization and the boy’s father [...]

Tags: Cross Border, data privacy, e-discovery, EDiscovery, EU, global, international, Italy, personal data protection, video. European Union Data Protection,Online Privacy Closed

Cross Border EDiscovery

February 19th, 2010 by Monique Altheim

Pin It New French Case Removes Automatic Privacy Shield From Employee E-Mails, Making Them More Amenable to US Discovery by Trevor Jefferies and Alvin F. Lindsay: A new decision released on 8 January 2010 from the French high labor court (the Cour de Cassation Chambre Sociale) may provide some grounds for arguing that a party [...]

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