Dear Dora,
I'm sorry, that I cannot provide "well-summarized" information, but I
may help with some resources to start digging ...
For Germany:
Whenever your business requires to collect, process or forward personal
information, you have to abide by the "Federal Data Protection Act":
http://www.bfd.bund.de/information/bdsg_eng.pdf
If you are going to provide any kind of telecommunication or
online-services the "Teleservices Data Protection Act" may apply as
well: http://www.iid.de/iukdg/aktuelles/fassung_tddsg_eng.pdf
European Union:
The data protection legislation of all EU member states has to follow
the "European Directive On Data Protection 95/46/EC"
http://www.bfd.bund.de/europa/EU_richtl_en.html. (This directive has
been implemented in the German Data Protection Act in 2001).
You may find summarized information on European data protection at
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/privacy/index_en.htm
Due to the fact, that you are in the US you may want to look at
http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/
The "Safe Harbor" initiative deals with the realm of forwarding personal
information of EU residents to the US.
UK:
Since I'm not a UK resident I can't help. The website
http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk may be a good starting point ...
Please drop a note, if I can provide further assistance...
Holm
Hello everyone,
I am not quite sure that this is the exactly right mail list
to post to but even a guidance on other mail lists that can
help me will be appreciated.
We are a US-based company, aggressively expanding business in
Europe. I am looking for good resources (preferably, with
well-summarized information) on EU data privacy laws and any
specific such laws applying to Great Britain and Germany.
Thank you!
Dora Mandadjiev
IT Security and Compliance, Sr. Manager
LNR Property, Inc.
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