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Originally posted by Lee
Question: In the UK we have the data protection act, and indeed there are versions of it in all EU Countries and others. Is there something similar in the States? For instance, if a company passes my details to Acacia, then this would infringe the data protection act over here. Im sure that using the information would be challengable too.
Here is a bit of the data protection act concerning non-EU countries taken from the eighth principle of the act:
The European Economic Area (the ?EEA?) consists of the fifteen EU
Member States together with Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. The
Eighth Principle prohibits the transfer of personal data to any country or
territory outside the EEA (?third country?) unless the third country in
question ensures ?an adequate level of protection for the rights and freedoms
of data subjects? (?adequate level of protection?) for those personal data in
the particular circumstances of the data transfer operation or set of data
transfer operations (?transfer?) in question.
If a company is selling/passing my details to a bunch of sharks like Acacia I would not consider that to be an adequate level of protection.
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good thinking Lee
if we can just find out who gave them the data, we all sue them in our own contries all over the eu. then they will have to appear in court all over eu - and if they don't appear, the company officers will never be able to set foot in the eu again without being arrested..
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