Impeachment Investigation Likely Won't Have to Tiptoe Around Foreign Privacy Laws
As part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry, The White House has been ordered to preserve documents related to President Trump's foreign calls. However, the implications for foreign privacy laws may not be as severe as one might expect.
October 11, 2019 at 08:00 AM
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Impeachment investigations may not do any favors for sitting presidents, but at least the e-discovery process won't suffer much.
Last week, CNN reported that the Justice Department had instructed the White House to preserve all documents related to the President's "meetings and phone calls with foreign leaders." And while many of those leaders may hail from countries with their own particular set of privacy regulations or national security laws, those shouldn't present too large an obstacle to the preservation mandate set before the White House.
Brian Hengesbaugh, chair of the global data privacy and security unit at Baker McKenzie, doesn't foresee a foreign entity fashioning a really strong privacy claim related to a call made with the American president.
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