Peter Brown writes: In the United States, India is synonymous with outsourced data processing services and customer service call centers for credit card issuers, banks and retailers. The flow of data between the two countries has been unrestricted and, to a large extent, unregulated. This has now been changed. In April 2011, India adopted new…
Category: Laws
Russia Enacts Amendments to Data Privacy Law
As reported in BNA’s Privacy Law Watch, on July 25, 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a new federal law amending Russia’s personal data privacy law, “On Personal Data.” The amended law, which was made public on July 27 and is effective retroactively from July 1, 2011, imposes new rules on international data transfers. As we previously reported, and as noted…
House Committee Approves Bill Mandating That Internet Companies Spy on Their Users
Rainey Reitman writes: Despite serious privacy concerns being voiced by both Democratic and Republican leaders and by thousands of digital rights activists using EFF’s Action Center, this afternoon the House Judiciary Committee voted 19 to 10 to recommend passage of H.R. 1981. That bill contains a mandatory data retention provision that would require your Internet service providers to retain 12 months’ worth of…
Will the government get serious on cloud security, data privacy?
Derrick Harris writes: When the federal government finally does undertake the task of legislating around cloud computing, it seems very likely that security measures and data privacy will drive the ship. On Tuesday the TechAmerica Foundation’s CLOUD2 commission announced a data- and security-heavy set of recommendations to guide the federal government’s efforts in regulating, adopting and promoting…