European Union data protection laws will apply...
European Union data protection laws will apply to non-EU companies doing business in Europe, EU ministers agreed during a Justice Council meeting Friday (http://bit.ly/1jggGun). The decision puts a conclusive end to an issue circulating European courts, where Facebook recently lost…
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an argument that it should be required to comply with the data privacy laws only in the country of its European headquarters, Ireland (http://bit.ly/1m66fMI). “It’s in the interest of companies to have legal certainty rather than having to spend money on costly law suits only to arrive at the same result at the end,” said EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding. “Following [Friday’s] agreements, the data protection reform is on track -- it is on the right track.” The decisions are part of the EU’s ongoing attempts to formalize a new set of data privacy rules (CD Oct 23 p14). U.S. companies have also been working to comply with a recent EU Court of Justice ruling that individuals have a “right to be forgotten” and can request search engines remove links to certain information about themselves.