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data retention
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Inside Privacy
German Support for Czech Court Decision is a Further Setback for EU Data Retention Directive
By Dan Cooper
On Tuesday the German Working Group on Data Retention endorsed the Czech Constitutional Court's decision to annul a Czech data retention law. The Czech court held that the law, which included…
Inside Privacy
Department of Justice Calls for Enhanced Data Retention from Service Providers
By Mike Nonaka
In testimony before a House Judiciary subcommittee on Tuesday, Jason Weinstein (Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ Criminal Division) emphasized the importance of data retention from internet and cell…
Inside Privacy
EU Plans Revisions to Data Retention Directive
EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström announced that the European Commission will propose amendments to the Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC) following publication of an evaluation report on the Directive early next…
Media Law Prof Blog
The EU Data Retention Directive and Customer Privacy
Ian Brown, University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute, is publishing Communications Data Retention in an Evolving Internet in the International Journal of Law and Information Technology. Here is the abstract.The 2006 Data…
Health Industry Washington Watch
HHS Guidance on Withdrawal of Subjects from Research
HHS has released a final guidance document entitled “Guidance on Withdrawal of Subjects from Research: Data Retention and Other Related Issues.” The guidance, which provides the HHS Office for Human Research…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Article 29 Working Party Report Highlights Inconsistent, Unlawful Implementation of EU Data Retention Directive
On July 14, 2010, the Article 29 Working Party issued a press release regarding its findings, which are included in a report to be contributed to the European Commission's evaluation…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
EU Article 29 Working Party Report on ISP and Telecom Carrier Data Retention for Law Enforcement Purposes
Winston Maxwell, a partner in Hogan Lovells’ Paris Office prepared this entry. On July 13, 2010 the EU’s Article 29 Data Protection Working Party adopted a report (http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/docs/wpdocs/2010/wp172_en.pdf ) describing…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Article 29 Working Party Calls on FTC to Investigate Online Retention and Anonymization Policies
The EU's Article 29 Working Party sent letters to Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to express concerns that the search engine providers' practices may not be…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
FTC Concerned About Retention of Scans on Copy Machines
It is not often that we come across something that just does not seem possible. Yesterday was one of those days, when the FTC announced that it is working with…
Media Law Prof Blog
EU Law, Romanian Law, and Privacy
Cristian Ganj has published The Lives of Other Judges: Effects of the Romanian Data Retention Judgment. Here is the abstract. The Constitutional Court of Romania has recently published a decision that…