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New model contract clauses for transfers out of EU go into effect May 15

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • European Union
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  • March 16 2010

Transferring data from an EU member state to a country outside of the EU is restricted under EU laws; however, companies seeking to engage in such a practice have long been able to take advantage of a "model contract" option

Review of 2009 and preview of 2010

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • January 15 2010

The transition from 2009 to 2010 sees some significant legislative chapters closing, notably the Companies Act 2006, Rome I and II, the Banking Act 2009 and the Lisbon Treaty

Goodbye SAS 70, hello SSAE 16 and introducing SOC2 and SOC3

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom, USA
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  • May 5 2011

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“AICPA”) Statement of Auditing Standard No. 70, or SAS 70 as it is more commonly known, has been with us since April 1992

EU ruling on the prohibition of online sales

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • European Union
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  • October 13 2011

The Court of Justice of the European Union (the "Court of Justice") has today ruled that the restriction of online sales in a selective distribution agreement constitutes a restriction of competition "by object" under EU law (Case C-43909 Pierre Fabre Dermo-Cosmétique v Président de l'Autorité de la Concurrence, Others

Mcdermott releases an employer's guide to implementing EU-compliant whistleblowing hotlines

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • August 25 2011

Companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges are required under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to establish a system for employees to internally report concerns over questionable auditing or accounting matters

Basic principles of European Union consent and data protection

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • July 25 2011

Any US company that receives data about individuals living in the European Union must be familiar with the basic principles of consent and data protection within the EU to avoid costly mistakes that are easily made in obtaining consent, should the validity of such consent be challenged by the EU data protection agencies

German privacy agency seeks to ban Facebook "like" feature on business sites

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
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  • European Union, Germany, USA
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  • September 8 2011

The data protection authority for the German state of Schleswig-Holstein has ordered businesses within that region to "shut down their fan pages on Facebook and remove social plug-ins such as the 'like'-button from their websites"

Doing business in the United Kingdom 2012

  • Bryan Cave LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • May 23 2012

This guide provides a general overview of the law applicable to businesses operating in the United Kingdom and in particular, guidance on legal matters to any non UK entity which wants to do business in the UK

EU requires consent before cookies can be placed

  • Andrews Kurth LLP
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  • European Union
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  • July 21 2011

On May 26, 2011, the 2009 amendments to the e-Privacy Directive (the “Directive”) regulating the use of internet cookies in the European Union (“EU”) went into effect

The EU Commission has proposed a new framework for data protection: what does this mean for your business?

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union
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  • February 9 2012

Recently the European Commission unveiled a proposal for a comprehensive and significant reform of the existing EU data protection framework