[Chapter-delegates] European data protection laws vs. membership

[Marcin Cieslak]

borka at e5.ijs.si wrote:

> Marcin,
> 
> The safe harbor principle with U.S institutions
> despite the mutual signatures never worked and is
> not anymore concerned as valuable protection of personal
> data by EU officials (this is  well known all over EU,
> confirmed by study and survey). In short: it was
> left out!

I am working with our lawyers about the details, referring them to
the Safe Harbor statements.

The problem with inter-governmental agreement (assuming for a while that
European Commission is my government) cannot override statutory law in
the continental law system.

> Your solution to ask your members for permission
> to send data abroad of EU is the right approach
> as they are owner of their data.

Should they not agree I have no legal ground to refuse them their local
membership. As far as understand our intention is to maintain global
membership through chapters (among others).

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              << Marcin Cieslak // saper at saper.info >>
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