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Information & Ethics committee Let me explain what I mean by safe harbour. For instance, with the flow of information from Europe into North America, after the data protection directives passed, the Federal Trade Commission, along with the EU panel working on that, developed a process by which companies could ascribe and self-certify to meet certain standards that made them, in particular, compliant with the data protection directives.
February 8th, 2007Committee meeting
Robert Johnson
Information & Ethics committee Exactly.
February 8th, 2007Committee meeting
Robert Johnson
Information & Ethics committee It falls to a commercial entity. For instance, in Europe, there was a time when United Airlines was not allowed to fly into Switzerland for about two hours because they had collected data that the data protection directives said it was unnecessary to collect. Also in Switzerland, I think, Coca-Cola was shut down, or had the threat of being shut down, because Coca-Cola was collecting more information than it needed to.
February 8th, 2007Committee meeting
Robert Johnson