Posted by: Jeffrey Neu
on Jun 23, 2009
The European Union has been fairly aggressive and proactive in its approach to Privacy Law. In 1995 the European Union (EU) passed a Data Protection
Directive protecting personal information and harmonizing privacy laws among its member states.
Posted by: Jeffrey Neu
on Jun 1, 2009
The European Commission announced on May 27 that there was a monumental breakthrough in online music licensing. Although it seems sometimes difficult to American consumers to accept the fact that their music does not travel as they do, and that the recordings they have and own are only technically legal to be distributed in the United States, the transborder nature of travel is even more prevalent in the EU.
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on May 19, 2009
This brief analyzes more than 40 United States Breach Notification laws, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and compares those requirements with EU Directives 2002/58/EC, 2002/21/EC, and the Data Protection Working Party Opinion 1/2009 on 2002/58/EC proposed amendments. This brief does not address individual EU member states' implementations of EU Directives 2002/58/EC and 2002/21/EC.
