SaaS Agreements – Data Protection – New Proposed EU Rules – Part 2

On the 25th of January 2012 the European Commission published a proposal for a new Data Protection Regulation to replace the existing EU Data Protection Directive. The proposal sets out a general data protection framework aimed at unifying the current differing data protection rules in the EU. Following on from my first article – part 1, I have summarised the remainder of the major changes this will make to EU data protection law below.

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SaaS Agreements – Data Protection – New Proposed EU Rules – Part 1

On the 25th of January 2012 the European Commission published a proposal for a new Data Protection Regulation to replace the existing EU Data Protection Directive. The proposal sets out a general data protection framework aimed at unifying the current differing data protection rules in the EU. I have summarised the major changes this will make to EU data protection law in two articles, part 1 of which is set out below.

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