US District Court Requires Production of Overseas Data Notwithstanding Applicable Foreign Data Protection Law by Joseph Baker, Andrew Nicely and Tim Wybitul Mayer Brown, LLP Many foreign countries have enacted privacy laws and “blocking” statutes that limit the disclosure of personal data and other information maintained within their borders. Violation of these statutes can result […]
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US District Court’s Desicion Based on Inaccurate Interpretation of EU and German Data Privacy Laws
Posted by Monique Altheim on March 9, 2010
https://ediscoverymap.com/2010/03/us-district-courts-desicion-based-on-inaccurate-interpretation-of-eu-and-german-data-privacy-laws/
Musings on The Deep Cultural Divide between The US Ediscovery Tradition and The EU Privacy Protection Principles
by 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 an […]
Posted by Monique Altheim on March 2, 2010
https://ediscoverymap.com/2010/03/musings-on-the-deep-cultural-divide-between-the-us-ediscovery-tradition-and-the-eu-privacy-protection-principles/
Video is “Personal Data” under EU Data Protection Laws- Cross Border Ediscovery Implications of The Google Three Case
This 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 in […]
Posted by Monique Altheim on March 1, 2010
https://ediscoverymap.com/2010/03/video-is-personal-data-under-eu-data-protection-laws-cross-border-ediscovery-implications-of-the-google-three-case/
Cross Border EDiscovery
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 in France […]
Posted by Monique Altheim on February 19, 2010
https://ediscoverymap.com/2010/02/crossborder-ediscovery/