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Data Subject Access Requests – High Court dismisses claim where DSAR regime abused

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Between 2010 and 2015, the Claimant entered into several ‘buy to let mortgages’ with the Defendant. A collateral purpose of the requestor wanting the material to assist in litigation is not an absolute exemption to the DSAR obligations [2] , but it is a relevant factor in the exercise of the court’s discretion.

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Quality Control, Making Sure the Numbers Add Up: eDiscovery Throwback Thursdays

eDiscovery Daily

Our seven-custodian example might be a bit light for the amount of email we get today, but it’s still a relevant exercise. Example of File Count Tracking. So, now that we’ve discussed the various categories for tracking files from collection to production, let’s walk through a fairly simple eMail-based example.

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Together, we can make a difference

Scary Beasts Security

A couple of weeks back, I released a popular spreadsheet which lists many of the Adobe Flash Player 0-days used to harm people in the wild since 2010. It was an interesting exercise, of course with an ulterior motive! If you look at the data, you'll see 7 memory corruption 0-days in a year, starting mid-2010.

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The Internet Big Five By Product Strength

John Battelle's Searchblog

If you buy that all of these companies need strategies in most of the areas I outline above, then looking for relative weaknesses and strengths of each is an interesting exercise. For example, I gave Facebook a “developing” in OSes, even though the company really doesn’t have an OS like Windows or iOS.

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European Commission Outlines Strategy for Revision of the Data Protection Directive

Hunton Privacy

On November 4, 2010, the European Commission (the “Commission”) released a draft version of its Communication proposing “a comprehensive approach on personal data protection in the European Union” (the “Communication”) with a view to modernizing the EU legal system for the protection of personal data.

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Malaysian Data Protection Law Takes Effect

Hunton Privacy

On November 14, 2013, the Minister of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (the “Minister”) announced that Malaysia’s Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (the “Act”) would be going into effect as of November 15, marking the end of years of postponements. The Act imposes criminal penalties for violations.

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Article 29 Working Party Releases Opinion on the Applicability of European Data Protection Law

Hunton Privacy

Early this week, the Article 29 Working Party issued its December 16, 2010 Opinion on applicable law, providing guidance on the scope of EU data protection law and the practical implications of Article 4 of the EU Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC, the “Directive”).