The European Court of Human Rights, a body of the Council of Europe, has issued a major court ruling on employee monitoring which deserves attention on this side of the pond and provides some guidance for companies with employees in Europe. Europe has generally taken a more protective stance than the U.S. when it comes
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EU Publishes Text of New General Data Protection Regulation
On December 17, 2015, following four years of sometimes acrimonious debate, the EU Parliament and Council of the European Union informally agreed on the final draft of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The GDPR will replace what privacy experts refer to simply as “95/48” –or the 1995 law known as EU Data Protection Directive—…