As companies in the U.S. work to comply with laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, they often conduct internal investigations that rely, in part, on collecting information from employees, such as documents and emails. It’s all perfectly legal in the U.S., but it can quickly lead to potential conflict when in-house lawyers also have to navigate European Union regulations on data protection — laws that guard employee privacy, even for information stored on company computers and servers.
Now imagine a scenario in which that information is even harder to obtain. Such appears to be the case under the E.U.’s new data protection proposal.
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