New Guidelines for the Reconciliation of e-Discovery Rules and European Privacy and Data Protection Law

On February 11, 2009, the European Data Protection Working Party—an independent European advisory board on data protection and privacy—adopted Working Paper 158 concerning "pre-trial discovery for cross-border civil litigation." The Working Paper aims to reconcile the "demands of the litigation process in foreign [non-European] jurisdictions" with European data protection obligations.

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