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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

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

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

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

New data protection regulations proposed

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • June 3 2011

Since 1 September 2009 protection of employee personal data has been regulated by Section 32 of the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG

Key national data protection developments in 2010

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • December 22 2010

The 2009 "data protection scandals" (involving inter alia Deutsche Bahn's mass screening of 230,000 employees) were one of the main reasons for last year's amendments to the Federal German Data Protection Act (GDPA

Employment update Finland - September, 2008

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Finland
  • -
  • August 22 2008

In the Act for the Protection of Privacy in Working Life (7592004) there have been only general requirements for processing employees’ personal data, the most important of which has been the general necessity requirement

Is there privacy for public sector workers?

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 20 2008

Individuals working in the private sector can expect that the personal data they provide to their employer will be kept confidential and only disclosed to third parties in very limited circumstances

Data theft is a people issue

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 16 2008

A number of recent reports and surveys have rightly highlighted the previously unappreciated risk of data theft and competition by employees and contractors

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

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • 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

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