Alerts

The European Union is about to make major changes in its privacy law that will have a significant impact on U.S. companies that do even modest amounts of business in Europe. On January 25, 2011, the European Commission (the EU’s executive branch) released a long-awaited Draft Regulation on the Protection of Individuals with Regard to the Processing of Personal Data and on the Free Movement of Such Data. While it will likely be a year or more before a final Regulation takes effect, and there will almost certainly be amendments along the way, American companies should start paying attention now, since they may have to change the way that they do business in Europe. We at Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A. are doing our own detailed analysis of the Regulation, which we will be distributing soon in the next edition of our IP Newsletter.