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Storing and screening employee emails abroad

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Germany, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • February 25 2008

This Update sets forth new considerations for email policies in the United States due to the NLRB’s recent ruling in Guard Publishing

Tivoisation and the open source debate

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Germany, Global, USA
  • -
  • June 2 2008

Tivoisation is the creation of a computer system that incorporates open source software but uses technical methods to prevent users from running modified versions of the software on that hardware

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • Germany, USA
  • -
  • May 24 2010

Authorities in both the United States and Germany are poised to begin inquiries into Google's collection of Wi-Fi data by its Street View cars, which were deployed to take street-level photos and collect basic Wi-Fi information, such as the SSIDs and MAC addresses of WiFi routers

Data protection regulator for Germany's Schleswig-Holstein calls for European review of FTC's Safe-Harbor program

  • Duane Morris LLP
  • -
  • Germany, USA
  • -
  • August 6 2010

An earlier Alert, "German Privacy Regulators Issue Decision on Data Protection and Safe-Harbor Self-Certification of US Companies," analyzed the Düsseldorfer Kreis decision that appeared to undermine the US Department of Commerce's Safe Harbor framework, one of the routes that enables data on individuals in Europe to be transferred to the United States

German DPAs require data exporters to verify safe harbor compliance

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
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  • Germany, USA
  • -
  • June 2 2010

On April 29, 2010, German data protection authorities issued a resolution regarding the obligations of German data exporters with respect to U.S. data importers that have self-certified under the Safe Harbor program

German privacy regulators issue decision on data protection and safe-harbor self-certification of US companies

  • Duane Morris LLP
  • -
  • Germany, USA
  • -
  • June 1 2010

A recent decision of German regulators may make compliance with privacy protections more challenging for US businesses doing business in Germany

German data-protection authorities decide on requirement to review safe harbor self-certification of U.S. data importers by the exporter

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • Germany, USA
  • -
  • June 3 2010

In 2000, the European Union and the US Department of Commerce agreed to the Safe Harbor framework that includes principles governing the protection of personal data transferred to a US-based company that self-certifies compliance to the Safe Harbor Principles

How safe is the safe harbor?

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Germany, USA
  • -
  • June 5 2010

A committee of German Data Protection Authorities has issued an opinion requiring German entities that export data to the United States to double-check whether U.S. data importers that have self-certified under the U.S-E.U. Safe Harbor are in fact complying with the Safe Harbor's requirements

U.S. court compels discovery of German personal information

  • Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
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  • Germany, USA
  • -
  • January 29 2010

In AccessData Corporation v. ALSTE Technologies GmbH, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4566 (D. Utah Jan. 21, 2010) the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division, compelled the production of personal information about customers of the German defendant after finding that German laws did not necessarily bar the production of such information and that the Hague Convention did not apply to the requested discovery

Stricter interpretation of Safe Harbor principles by German data protection authorities (due diligence requirements)

  • Sidley Austin LLP
  • -
  • Germany, USA
  • -
  • June 22 2010

German data protection authorities have placed a significant new duty on German companies transferring personal data to US companies on the basis of the Safe Harbor principles to inquire into the compliance practices of the US Safe Harbor member

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