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One way to ensure a transfer of personal data from the EU to the US does not fall foul of Data Protection Directive export controls is to send it to…

Commissioner Reding has made a key announcement on plans to update the creaking 1995 data protection directive. These are based on a disappointing total of 160 responses received from across…

EU Data Protection Commissioner Peter Hustinx will give the keynote address at the 4th Annual DataGuidance European Data Protection Intensive to be held this year in London on 20 and…

From 6 April 2010, the Information Commissioner’s Office will get the power to impose fines of up half a million pounds for serious breaches of data protection legislation. Phil Lee…

Not content with its shiny new 2009 Privacy Notices Code of Practice, the Information Commissioner’s Office is now consulting on a wide-ranging “Personal Information Online Code of Practice.” Comments are…

2010 looks set to be the year of the privacy regulator, with eye-watering data protection fines, audits, assessment notices and even prison sentences for “blagging offences” all supposedly coming into…

ICO’s 2008/9 Report initially got lost in a flurry of juicier stories about the new Information Commissioner, behavioural advertising and data security breaches. However, it offers key insights into the…

The FTC has taken its first ever safe harbor enforcement action against a US business that said it was safe harbor certified for data exports from Europe when, in fact,…

Amendments have been made to the Federal German Data Protection Act. Georg Meyer-Spasche reports from Osborne Clarke’s Cologne office on the imminent changes and explains what companies with German offices…

ICO has published the final version of its “Privacy Notices Code of Practice”, together with a wealth of good and bad practice data collection examples – but gets its soft…

As data protection stories continue to hit the headlines, Osborne Clarke’s nationally recognised data protection team will provide a plain English guide to key risk mitigation steps at One London…