All posts tagged EU

The Recent Privacy Framework Proposals,The Internet of Things and PET

The CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas  just wrapped up a few days ago to an astounding success. According to PC magazine, one of the five essential trends to emerge from the CES 2011 was the internet of things. The internet of things can be explained as follows: “It is foreseeable that any object will […]

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Data Retention in the EU Five Years after the Directive

The European Commission is planning a review of the Data Retention Directive of 2006, which could include a harmonization and reduction of the periods when public authorities can access citizens’ private data held by telecommunication companies for security matters. The directive allows for retention periods between 6 months and 24 months. Most member states have implementd […]

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A Week’s Worth of Ediscovery, Privacy, Cloud and Social Media Tweets by @EUdiscovery

Have a social and mobile new year http://bit.ly/f0RpLL#socialcommerce #mobileshopping Top 5 Privacy Violations of 2010 http://huff.to/e2rFGE #wikileaks#FB #tylerclementi #karenowen #foursquare Future-proof your data archive http://bit.ly/e86h8V #infogovernance#ediscovery #compliance BlackBerry says India can’t access encrypted datahttp://bit.ly/eYp4Gj #privacy McDonald’s accused of violating privacy http://bit.ly/hY5fCO#datamining #datapotection eDiscoveryJournal Reflects on The Year 2010 http://bit.ly/gb8EYa#ediscoveryU.S. Seeks Comments on Internet Privacy Report http://bit.ly/gfbIkc What you need to know […]

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A Week’s Worth of Ediscovery, Privacy and Social Media Tweets by @EUdiscovery

Video Surveillance Now Available with New Feature “Privacy Mask”http://bit.ly/fwiPvg Judge Allows NebuAd Privacy Lawsuit To Proceedhttp://bit.ly/eExtDN #behavioraltargeting #tracking The Year Ahead for Text and Sentiment Analysis http://bit.ly/hwNfi3#ediscovery #socialmedia EU adopts report on “the Impact of Advertising on Consumer Behaviour http://bit.ly/fsKeTP #privacy #dataprotection EU Criticises US ‘Lack Of Interest’ In Data Protectionhttp://bit.ly/gDJccA #privacy #dataprotection Privacy, Hactivists, Insider Threats: […]

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The International Association of Privacy Professionals’ First Europe Data Protection Congress

I recently attended the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (IAPP) very first Europe Data Protection Congress in Paris on November 29 and 30. The attendee list was impressive: Privacy professionals, employed by Fortune 500 companies from a wide variety of industries, like Hewlett-Packard, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, Oracle, Western Union, Microsoft, IBM, Dell, Google, Yahoo, Estee […]

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

This 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 indicates […]

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Privacy Week in Jerusalem, hosted by ILITA: A Preview

ILITA, The Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority, will host a Privacy Week on October 25-29, 2010 in Jerusalem, Israel. Article 29 Working Party recently published an an opinion finding that Israeli data protection law largely provides an “adequate level of data protection” under the European Union Data Protection Directive 95/46. Thus Israel will be joining […]

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Cloud Security and Privacy: A Legal Compliance and Risk-Management Guide, Part 1 and 2

In this two-part series, legal expert Robert McHale, author of Data Security and Identity Theft: New Privacy Regulations That Affect Your Business, provides a comprehensive overview of the legal security and privacy risks associated with cloud computing. Part 1 discusses the principal federal and state laws regulating cloud activities. Part 2 provides a practical due diligence […]

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

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. I interviewed […]

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IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2010 – Hot Topics : Jay Libove on Italy v. Google

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. I interviewed […]

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