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The Ministry of Security and Justice is currently conducting a public consultation on a draft bill to amend the Dutch Personal Data Protection Act.
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Introduction II. The Law: A Thin Veil At Best A. The Common Law B. Federal Law: The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 1. Electronic Communications Privacy Act Provisions 2. Statutory Exceptions Under the ECPA a. Consent Exception b. Service Provider Exception c. Business Use Exception 3. Congressional Recognition of the Problem C. State Law III. E-Mail, The Workplace, And "Our" Privacy IV. Proposal: Legal Advice From Across The Pond, The Data Protection Act In Favor Of The Electronic Communications Privacy Act A. Foundations of the Data Protection Act B. The Data Protection Act C. The Battle of the Acronyms: The DPA v. the ECPA V. Conclusion
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In July 2009, the German legislature passed various controversial amendments (the "Amendments") to the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, Germany's Federal Data...
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The upper house of the Dutch parliament (Eerste Kamer) has adopted the legislative proposal to amend the Dutch Personal Data Protection Act (Wet besch...
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'' or ``CFTC'') is adopting rules to implement the Commodity Exchange Act (``CEA'' or ``Act'') relating to . These sections of the CEA were added by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (``Dodd-Frank Act''). The rules being adopted apply to for swap data repositories, derivatives clearing organizations, designated contract markets, swap execution facilities, swap dealers, major swap participants, and swap counterparties who are neither swap dealers nor major swap participants. The recordkeeping and reporting requirements of this rule further the goals of the Dodd-Frank Act to reduce systemic risk, increase tra...
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Worcestershire County Council and North Somerset Council Fines
Powys County Council has received the largest fine to date, [pounds sterling]130,000,...
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. SOURCE "The Data Protection Act: The Data Protection Principles," h...
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The UK data protection watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office ("ICO "), has today handed out the first 'fines' for serious breaches of the Da...
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The E.U. has been at the forefront of global data privacy since 1995. The EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (the Directive) and national legislation implemented in E.U. Member States, like the UK Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), provide broad definitions of "Personal Data" and who is deemed to be a "Data Controller," ensuring that virtually all background due diligence companies and their clients, such as banks, pension funds, hedge funds and consultants, are caught in the net of the E.U. data privacy laws. As will be explained, what is covered under the DPA is far broader than what investigative firms likely thought; rather than relating solely to identifying information that if mishandled could lead to identity theft, the gathering of background information itself (under the scenar...
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In December, the government issued a bill on the regulation of data protection audits and on certain amendments of other data protection provisions. T...