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Israel’s data protection laws ‘adequate’ for data export from EU

14 February 2011 | Mark Weston

Israel’s data protection laws have been deemed to be ‘adequate’, according to the European Commission. Under the European Union’s Data Protection Directive, unless a country’s data protection...

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Air cargo carriers fined €800m for price fixing

17 November 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The European Commission has fined 11 air cargo carriers a combined €800m for their part in a six year price fixing cartel. The carriers had co-ordinated fuel surcharges and security. The Commission gave...

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Israel becomes an ‘adequate’ data protection nation

8 November 2010 | Mark Weston

Data can now be transferred to Israel freely without breaching European Union data protection law. Israel is the seventh country to have its data protection regime approved by the EU. Formal approval is...

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Government launches public consultation on data protection laws

14 July 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The Government has launched a consultation with the public to ask for their opinions on the country’s data protection laws and whether the position can be improved. The consultation has a wide remit...

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European Commission updates data export laws to take account of sub-contracting in outsourced processing

18 February 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Under the EU’s Data Protection Directive, personal data cannot be transferred out of the European Economic Area unless there is adequate protection of the data. One way of ensuring adequate protection...

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