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International Restrictions on Releasing Personal Information

The dilemma confronted by corporate counsel involved in foreign litigation is whether to disclose personal information located in foreign countries with laws that severely restrict the processing and transfer of personal data and risk being punished there with civil and/or criminal penalties; or to filter out the personal data and risk being sanctioned in the U.S. for incomplete responses to e-discovery requests.

22 minute read September 29, 2009 at 08:54 AM
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M. James Daley And Laura Clark Fey
International Restrictions on Releasing Personal Information

In June, data privacy experts from around the globe converged in Barcelona, Spain for The Sedona Conference's' International Programme on Cross-Border eDiscovery and Data Privacy.

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