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EU-US Privacy Shield Formally Adopted by the European Commission: eDiscovery Trends

As we discussed back in February, the EU-US Privacy Shield, an important new agreement governing the transfer of data between Europe and the United States, was announced on February 2. Within the same month, the European Commission released details on the new trans-Atlantic data transfer arrangement. Now, the European Commission has formally adopted the new agreement, only nine months after the old “Safe Harbor” agreement was struck down.

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Court Grants Discovery on Individual Defendants’ Personal Computers and Email: eDiscovery Case Law

In Sunderland v. Suffolk County et. al., New York Magistrate Judge A. Kathleen Tomlinson, determining that the plaintiff’s request for individual defendants to search for and produce certain documents from their personal computers and email accounts was not “unduly intrusive or burdensome” because the request was limited in time frame and the parties had agreed to search terms, granted the plaintiff’s motion to compel.

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