Forrester

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• 1. What are the fundamentals of the EU Data Protection Directive?
• 2. What is the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, and what is its relationship to the European Commission?
• 3. What does EU "privacy adequacy" mean?
• 4. Which countries are considered by the EU to provide an adequate level of data privacy protection?
• 5. What is Safe Harbor and what is the controversy surrounding it?
• 6. What does Safe Harbor mean for an EU company that wants to do business with a US data processor and for a US company that wishes to handle EU personal data?
• 7. Does the USA Patriot Act apply to the EU divisions of a US-based company?
• 8. Are there any provisions that allow me to transfer EU personal data to a third country that has not been deemed as having an adequate level of privacy protection by the EU?
• 9. What provisions are contained in the model clauses?
• 10. What are Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs), and how would I apply them?
• 11. What is Germany's data protection law, how does it affect my business, and what are the differences between it and the EU Data Protection Directive?
• 12. What are the new and pending privacy legislations in the EU, and how might they affect companies doing business in the EU?
• 13. What is the EU's new "cookie" directive?
• 14. What is the European Council's view on location privacy for mobile phones?