[thelist] Online Privacy Regulations

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Also, there is strict instruction in the EU Data Protection
Directive that data should not go to countries without strong
DP regimes (eg the US) without the data subject's permission.

There was an attempt to license specific companies who had
robust privacy policies as a workaround (the initiative was called
Safe Harbour/Harbor) but it fell apart a bit.

If you want more, the UK data protection legislation is a good
place to start:
http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk/
http://wood.ccta.gov.uk/dpr/dpdoc.nsf

Note that some EU countries (Germany for one) are much
more stringent than this.

Cheers
Martin





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The current European laws are more stringent in terms of privacy protection
than the US equivalent.
This message translates to: "You have been warned."
The US equivalent is "" <-empty :-)




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