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Encroaching on privacy in the name of privacy

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
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  • January 15 2009

Unlike the United States, Canada has comprehensive federal privacy legislation that applies to businesses namely, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA

FCRA completely preempts California's CCRAA

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 6 2009

Question: Does the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act preempt all actions filed under California's Consumer Credit Reporting Agency Act?

Privacy & data protection: export of personal data: important developments

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • January 12 2009

Thirteen Data Protection Authorities have agreed to streamline procedures for approving exports of personal data within multinationals

Subject access guide

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 12 2009

For many organisations one of their key problems with data protection legislation is handling requests from individuals for access to the information held on them

Bipartisan support to overhaul outdated computer privacy laws

  • IT-LEX Inc
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 1 2013

From time to time, there is bipartisan agreement in Washington. In what would be a great step forward for Americans' digital privacyand

Bringing in the lawyers to keep data breach details privileged

  • IT-LEX Inc
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 9 2013

You may recall Eric's recent post here, about whether big companies have a legal andor ethical requirement to report data breaches to the SEC. As he

House Intelligence Committee approves bipartisan cybersecurity legislation with privacy and civil liberties amendments

  • Alston & Bird LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 12 2013

Yesterday afternoon the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence marked up H.R. 624, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act

TMT legal update: Government to adopt “G-Cloud first” policy to IT procurement

  • Eversheds LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 9 2013

Central Government will, as a default, be required to use the G-Gloud for procurement of IT services. Cloud computing is at the heart of the

Notifications of data security breaches

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Germany
  • -
  • February 6 2007

The Data Protection Directive is implemented in Germany through the Federal Data Protection Act (“Bundesdatenschutzgesetz”). Section 9 of the Federal Data Protection Act states that data processors and data controllers must take adequate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data

Data security breach notification

  • Vedder Price PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • February 7 2007

Information management extends beyond eDiscovery and e-mail archiving