A recent decision by La Commission Nationale de L'informatique dt des Libertes (CNIL) illustrates the recent push by European data protection authorities to more readily eforce the EU's data protection policy. In that decision, a French company was fined for improperly transferring employee personal data to its headquarters in the U.S. In the following informative article, Ashley P. Winton, a partner in the London, England firm of White and Case, advises multinational companies how to properly deal with the issue of transferring employee data cross-border.
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