empir.is – Page 2 – ethics, law & technology

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,

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

Posted in Compliance, Export Regulations

Lasers to Iran: U.S. Export Regulations are serious business.

lynn
posted on 23 February 201223 February 2012
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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

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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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
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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

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

Posted in Compliance, Corruption, fcpa, Opinion

$16.8M fine for European device maker in FCPA settlement.

lynn
posted on 6 February 20126 February 2012
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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 &

Posted in Compliance, Opinion

P.I.P. Implants: French Health Authorities aware in 1996.

lynn
posted on 1 February 20122 February 2012
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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

Posted in Uncategorized

US F.D.A. Approves Ivacaftor

lynn
posted on 31 January 2012
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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

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
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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