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		<title>Finland: DPA launches tool for companies to demonstrate accountability </title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman (DPO) released - on 24 April 2012 - an accountability tool entitled the 'Data Balance Sheet' (DBS) which aims to help companies and public bodies assess their data processing practices. The DBS encourages companies and public bodies to be transparent by disclosing information on their data practices in a structured and detailed way. Through a voluntary DBS, companies should disclose information demonstrating compliance, which can be verified by an independent internal or external auditor.]]></description>
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		<title>International: Cloud computing guide should become 'minimum benchmark'</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications issued - on 24 April 2012 - a 'Working Paper on Cloud Computing - Privacy and data protection issues' (the Guide), which specifically examines the processing of personal data in cloud computing environments. 'There is still uncertainty in relation to cloud computing, especially when it concerns privacy, data protection and other legal issues', reads the Guide. 'The recommendations in this paper are intended to help reduce that uncertainty'. In particular, the Guide recommends implementing data protection standards within the cloud, privacy impact and risk assessments, greater transparency, security, accountability and independent audit provisions. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Netherlands: Dutch Upper House passes cookie law </title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Upper House of the Dutch Parliament passed an amendment to the Telecommunications Act on 8 May 2012, which implements the provisions on cookies contained within the revised e-Privacy Directive (2009/136/EC). ]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>North Africa: Privacy harmonisation discussed at cybercrime conference  </title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) held - on 9-11 May 2012 in Rabat, Morocco - a conference for North African countries to 'define agreed guidelines for the implementation of a harmonised cybersecurity legal framework' in association with the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA). Topics discussed included the protection of personal data, and the security of commercial and financial transactions, among others. ]]></description>
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		<title>USA: FTC, DOJ and CFPB support constitutionality of credit reporting law</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a memorandum brief on 8 May 2012, in support of the constitutionality of the US federal law, the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). 
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>EU: Data regulators warn against too many privacy exemptions </title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spring Conference of the European Data Protection Commissioners - which took place in Luxembourg on 3-4 May 2012 - saw the adoption of a Resolution, which welcomed the ongoing reform of the privacy frameworks of the EU, the Council of Europe, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). 
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>DataGuidance expands Asia-Pacific coverage: South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam now live!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DataGuidance is delighted to announce the addition of <strong>South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam </strong>to its database, in response to the growing demand for compliance resources in this area and in light of the significant developments taking place in those countries. ]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>UK: Cookie law enforcement will be 'pragmatic'</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK Information Commissioner (ICO), Christopher Graham, announced at the IAPP Data Protection Intensive on 25-26 April 2012, that enforcement of the cookie law will be ''pragmatic and realistic'', when the moratorium on enforcement is lifted on 26 May 2012. ]]></description>
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		<title>Canada: Accountability guide 'takes data protection from policy to practice'</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian Federal, British Columbia and Alberta Privacy Commissioners released - on 17 April 2012 - accountability guidance for the private sector entitled 'Getting Accountability Right with a Privacy Management Program', which aims to help companies develop a privacy management program compliant with the accountability requirements under Canadian law.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Soundbites from the IAPP Europe Data Protection Intensive 2012, London</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DataGuidance has compiled a list of some of the  comments made at the IAPP Europe Data Protection Intensive, which took place on 25-26 April 2012. ]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>USA: FCC fines Google $25,000 for delays in Streetview case</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fined Google Inc. $25,000 on 14 April 2012, for the search engine's non-compliance with FCC requests for information for a period of almost nine months during an investigation into Google Street View's privacy practices. 
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Europe: EU seeks right privacy trade-off for Internet of Things</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The EU Commission launched - on 12 April 2012 - a consultation on wirelessly connected devices (the 'Internet of Things') seeking comments on privacy and information security issues, among others. The Commission aims to 'unleash the potential economic and societal benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT), whilst ensuring an adequate level of control of the devices gathering, processing and storing information. ]]></description>
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