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Posted in CNIL, Compliance, Data privacy, France, Google

What to make of the EU reaction to Google’s new privacy policy?
  • lynn
  • posted on 29 February 201222 March 2012
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Yesterday’s letter from the French National Commission on Information Technology and Freedoms (CNIL) points out some very specific problems in Google’s widely publicized new privacy policy,
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Posted in Compliance, Data security

The human factor: Dassault nEUROn drone blueprints stolen.
  • lynn
  • posted on 24 February 2012
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In an incident right out of a Bond film, Le Parisien newspaper reported Wednesday that documents related to Dassault Aviations’s nEUROn stealth drone were stolen at Paris’ Gare du Nord
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Posted in Compliance, Export Regulations

Lasers to Iran: U.S. Export Regulations are serious business.
  • lynn
  • posted on 23 February 201223 February 2012
  • No Comment
According to Just Anti-Corruption, U.S.-based PRC Laser has been fined $42,000 by the U.S. Commerce Department for shipping an industrial laser to Iran through a 3rd party based in Dubai. The laser
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Posted in Competition law, Compliance, fcpa, Sarbanes-Oxley, Uncategorized

The Compliance Matrix Graphic
  • lynn
  • posted on 19 February 201221 February 2012
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   ©2012 empir.is (attribution
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Posted in Competition law, Compliance, France, Opinion

French Competition Authority will cut fines 10% for companies with compliance programs.
  • lynn
  • posted on 16 February 201217 February 2012
  • No Comment
More recognition across Europe that a well-built and delivered compliance program is being taken into consideration by regulatory authorities comes from France today as the Competition Authority
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Posted in Compliance, Corruption, fcpa, Uncategorized

US DOJ brings in FBI to investigate News Corp bribes to Scotland Yard.
  • lynn
  • posted on 8 February 20129 February 2012
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When details emerged last July that employees of News International (the press arm of News Corp) had possibly bribed 5 Scotland Yard police officers, the FCPA red alert must surely have sounded in
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Posted in Compliance, Corruption, fcpa, Opinion

$16.8M fine for European device maker in FCPA settlement.
  • lynn
  • posted on 6 February 20126 February 2012
  • No Comment
        The US DOJ announced today that Smith & Nephew has admitted to and settled claims related to an offshore kickback scheme with a Greek distributor. Smith &
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Posted in Compliance, Opinion

P.I.P. Implants: French Health Authorities aware in 1996.
  • lynn
  • posted on 1 February 20122 February 2012
  • No Comment
According to French daily Libération, a report delivered this morning to the French Ministry of Labor and Health confirms that P.I.P. implants were tested by independent physicians in 1996 who
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Posted in Uncategorized

US F.D.A. Approves Ivacaftor
  • lynn
  • posted on 31 January 2012
  • No Comment
Bravo to Vertex for bringing this to market. Molecules to address the genetic basis of a disease are incredibly expensive to develop and market. Even though this only addresses one of the mutated
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Posted in Competition law, Compliance, EU Commission, Suez

Don’t touch that. Dawn raids and the EU seal.
  • lynn
  • posted on 30 January 201230 January 2012
  • No Comment
While reading a Bloomberg news story on the EU probe into possible collusion between Veolia, Suez and Saur to fix French water services prices, I was reminded that last year Suez’s subsidiary
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