Framing the International E-Discovery Issues: Data Across the Globe - The Discovery Standard - Discovery News
Courtney Barton, Vice President of Industry Relations at Applied Discovery, discusses privacy and legal issues related to cross border discovery processes, especially in relation to "countries that see the American need for discovery as not only an invasion of privacy, but also an attack on foreign sovereignty". She contrasts data collection under relatively liberal U.S. discovery rules with data collection under the European Union Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) and individual member states' rules, and in some cases criminal laws protecting data such as the French Blocking Statue (French Penal Code, Law No. 80 - 538, July 16, 1980). This creates a conflict for multi-national corporations located in the U.S. who are faced with collecting data abroad. Read More »
