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Singapore’s new Personal Data Protection Act impact on employers

  • ATMD Bird & Bird LLP
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • November 8 2012

Singapore’s newly passed Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA) is expected to be enacted in early 2013 and be implemented in about mid-2014, giving organizations above 18 months to get ready to comply with the PDPA

Confidentiality and your employees: who holds the trump card?

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 5 2013

The rights and restrictions relating to the use of information tend to pass us by in day-to-day life. We generally do not dwell on whether repeating

Ezsias v Welsh Ministers

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 18 2008

This is another subject access case where the courts have refused to support a claimant who tried to use the Data Protection Act 1998 as a means of pursuing other proceedings

Transfer of confidential information and repudiatory breaches of contract

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 3 2011

In Brandeaux Advisers (UK) Ltd and others v Chadwick the High Court has held that an employee was in fundamental breach of contract when she sent large amounts of her employer's confidential information to her private e-mail address

IT’s role in protecting business data when people move

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 19 2008

What happens in your company when an employee leaves, taking customer or database information, copies of programs or code, or business critical information?

Stuck between a rock and a hard place? The Swedish Data Protection Authority rejects American company’s request to process workers’ criminal records

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Sweden
  • -
  • March 18 2008

Standard & Poors AB is the Swedish subsidiary of the American company McGraw-Hill Companies Inc

Social networking - harmless fun or a threat to business security?

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 1 2008

Social networking websites are perhaps the best-known brands in the so-called ‘Web 2.0 revolution’, which has put heavy emphasis on user-generated content on the internet

Update on home computing what is "private use"?

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 29 2007

Only “private use” of employer-provided computers is taxable

Sex, lies and employees: pornography in the workplace

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • December 7 2011

Under French law, employers must tolerate employees' reasonable personal use of IT systems

The remaining provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 come into force on 24 October 2007

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 9 2007

The Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”) came into force on 1 March 2000 and replaced the (previous) Data Protection Act 1984 in its entirety