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Read this article to get a selection of 5 significant data privacy happenings or policy changes affecting businesses and governments around the world. This month: Recent HR Data breaches in the US; Google’s trials in Germany and Spain; UK Organisations Failing to Instill Confidence in Data Protection; European Commission Reaches Adequacy Determination for Israel.

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More criticism of the U.S. Safe Harbor process emerged in July in Germany, with the Data Protection Authority (DPA) of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein calling for either an enforcement crack-down or the immediate termination of the program. The straw that broke the camel’s back in northern Germany appears to be the imminent release of another critique of Safe Harbor by Galexia, an Australian consulting firm.

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Two of the world’s largest and most influential Internet companies, Facebook and Google, experienced extraordinary privacy melt-downs in May, arguably the most severe in their corporate history. Facebook’s involved a global tsunami of backlash against its most recent changes in privacy policy and settings, while Google’s was an international firestorm ignited by the revelation that the company had surreptitiously collected personal data from unsecured wireless networks around the world.

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Just when one thought it couldn’t get much worse, Facebook fueled the mounting international privacy firestorm directed against it by introducing a host of new features and a further round of changes in its privacy policies.

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The European Commission has issued new standard contractual clauses that must be used going forward when companies decide to use model contracts as the legal basis for data transfers to data processors located outside the European Union.

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The FTC, in responding to a comment received on the proposed settlement reached with one of the six companies recently found to have let its Safe Harbor certification lapse, made it clear that it does not find deficiencies in a company’s publ ished Safe Harbor privacy policy to constitute a violation of the Safe Harbor framework

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Massachusetts Finalizes Data Security Regulations: On November 4th the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation announced its final regulations (201 CMR 17.00) prescribing how entities owning or processing personal information of Massachusetts residents must protect such data.

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