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Data Access
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Global Privacy & Security Compliance Blog
Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner Offers Guidance on Handling of Data Access Requests
By Simon Berry and Daisy Shen Questions often arise about the scope of a data user’s obligations to respond to data subject access requests. Hong Kong’s Privacy Commissioner for Personal…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
German Government Proposes Amendments to Act on Access to Digital Geographical Data
On May 24, 2012, the German government submitted a proposal to amend a 2009 law concerning access to geographical data.
Inside Privacy
UK Government Opens a New Consultation on Access to Public Data
By Dan Cooper
On 4 August, 2011, the Cabinet Office of the UK Government opened a new public consultation on disclosure and access to public sector data. The consultation, which seeks to "establish a…
Drug & Device Law
Move Along Here, Nothing To See…Yet
By will
Last Friday, FDA finally released its long-awaited Transparency Initiative (now called the Phase III Transparency Report), and luckily, the troubling proposals we previously blogged about didn't make it into the…
Technology Law Dispatch
Indian Government discussing BlackBerry ban: “security more important than privacy”
By Cynthia O’Donoghue, Katalina Bateman, Katharina A. Weimer
A few days following the concession made by BlackBerry manufacturers, Research in Motion (RIM), to provide Indian security agencies access to their encrypted data, India’s Home Minister P. Chidambaram held…
The IP Law Blog
The Seventh And Ninth Circuits Split On What Constitutes “Without Authorization” Within The Meaning Of The Computer Fraud And Abuse Act
By Dale C. Campbell and David Muradyan The Seventh Circuit and the Ninth Circuit do not agree on what constitutes “authorization” under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C.…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
European Parliament Rejects the SWIFT Agreement
On February 11, 2010, the plenary of the European Parliament rejected by a vote of 378 to 196 the agreement reached in 2009 between the EU and the U.S. to…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Transparency in the Court System
By joetort
Lynn LoPucki (UCLA) has recently posted an article entitled "Court Transparency" on SSRN. This article discusses an issue that will be increasingly important, the availability of filings and other court…
The Trademark Blog
Metasearch Back Up
OK, Japan took their online database down for the weekend and that screwed up the metasearch for a while. The metasearch is back up, minus Japan.