[privacy] EU: Tyco Fined for Overseas Transfers of Personal Data

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via OUT-LAW.com.

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The French data protection authority has fined a subsidiary of US firm Tyco
Healthcare over the transfer of employee information across borders and
inadequate data safeguards. Tyco Healthcare France was fined €30,000.

It is believed to be the first time that a US-based multinational has been
fined for unauthorised overseas transfers of personal data.

La Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL) has
imposed the fine after discovering that Tyco's human resources database was
using personally identifiable information more extensively than the company
had admitted.

Tyco notified CNIL in 2004 that it was operating a human resources database
containing personal information, as required by French law.

When at a later date CNIL requested further information from the company,
Tyco said that it had stopped using the database. An inspection in 2006 by
CNIL found that not only was the database active, but that it was being
used more extensively than the company had indicated.

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More:
http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=8096

- - ferg

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