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European Union - April 9 2013
The French, Italian, British, German, Spanish and Dutch Data Protection Authorities announced on April 2, 2013 that each will launch investigations…
European Union - December 17 2012
It has been reported that Google will give EU businesses the opportunity to store personal data exclusively on servers in the EU.
France - September 14 2012
The French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) has recently issued its activity report for 2011 (http://www.cnil.fr/fileadmin/documents/en/Cnil-RA2011-EN/index.html.)
European Union - June 29 2012
On June 7, 2012, the Article 29 Working Party, an independent advisory body composed of representatives from the national data protection authorities of the EU Member States, the European Data Protection Supervisor and the European Commission, issued Opinion 04/2012 regarding which types of cookies are exempted from the informed user-consent requirement under Directive 2002/58 of the European Parliament (the E-Privacy Directive).
