New Privacy Law Resource
Sep 24
Members of the Georgetown Law Center community now have access to the World Data Protection Report. This monthly report summarizes developments in privacy law worldwide. Topics included are identity theft, monitoring and surveillance in the workplace, encryption, network security, cross-border data flows, outsourcing, and direct marketing. Previous issues can be searched online.
Students, faculty, and staff can sign up to receive an alert when a new issue has been published (along with other BNA titles).
In a case that rested on the question of whether access to medical records was covered by Article Eight of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees citizens' right to privacy, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Finnish government failed to protect a citizen's right to privacy through negligent handling of her medical records (I v. Finland, Eur. Ct. H.R., No. 20511/03, 7/17/08). 