Compliments of our DLA Piper colleagues in the data protection and privacy practice, and co-editors Kate Lucente and John Townsend, here is the DLA Piper 2015 Data Protection Laws of the World Handbook. This updated 2015 online edition of the handbook offers a high-level snapshot of selected features of international laws as they currently stand in 77 jurisdictions across the world. For example, here is a heat map that provides a visual representation of the privacy challenges faced in certain jurisdictions.

Here is a .pdf of the full 421-page
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Compliments of our DLA Piper colleagues in the data protection and privacy practice, and co-editors Kate Lucente and Paul McCormack, here is the DLA Piper 2014 Data Protection Laws of the World Handbook.  This new online edition of the handbook offers a high-level snapshot of selected features of international laws as they currently stand in 72 jurisdictions across the world.  For example, here is a heat map that provides a visual representation of the privacy challenges faced in certain jurisdictions.

Here is a .pdf of the full 349-page handbook
Continue Reading Interactive 2014 Data Protection Laws of the World Handbook

Courtesy of our DLA Piper colleagues Jim Halpert, Sydney M. White, Kate Lucente, and Haris H. Khan is a summary of the FTC’s recent proposal for modifying the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule.  COPPA heavily regulates the collection, use and disclosure of personal information from online users who are known to be under 13 years old and from sites and online services targeted to this population.
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