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BNA Books' New Global Employee Privacy and Data Security Law Provides Global Context on International Privacy and Data Security Obligations

Posted on: Monday, 13 July 2009, 14:10 CDT

ARLINGTON, Va., July 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The complexities of privacy and data security laws from countries across the globe are clarified and analyzed for employers in Global Employee Privacy and Data Security Law. This exceptional treatise has just been published by BNA Books, a division of BNA.

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In today's global market, employers share and move more information than ever before. As employers centralize human resources processes to achieve greater efficiency and cost cutting, information relating to employees is moving globally. For employers operating on a global scale and the attorneys advising them, the complications are all the more problematic.

More than 65 countries have their own data protection laws regulating the collection, use, transfer, and disclosure of personal information, and complying with these complex and often conflicting laws can be a struggle for organizations doing business overseas. Now you can rely on BNA Books' newest title, Global Employee Privacy and Data Security Law, designed specifically to help attorneys, privacy professionals, and human resources professionals understand the interaction of U.S. and international legal requirements related to workplace privacy and data security, and achieve compliance with all of these requirements.

Morrison & Foerster LLP and Editors Miriam H. Wugmeister and Christine E. Lyon have crafted a user-friendly book that offers a comprehensive, "big-picture" overview of the legal framework applied in the United States, Canada, the European Union, and Asia. Global Employee Privacy and Data Security Law presents wide-ranging analyses of crucial topics across jurisdictions to focus on the conflicts and variations among the laws and countries involving background checks and investigations; e-mail and internet monitoring/video and physical surveillance; employees' off-duty conduct; confidentiality of health information; personnel records; and much more.

Ms. Wugmeister is a partner in the New York office of Morrison & Foerster and is head of the firm's Privacy and Data Security Practice Group. Ms. Lyon is a partner in Morrison & Foerster's Palo Alto, CA office, where her practice concentrates on employment and privacy law. She works extensively in the firm's Privacy and Data Security Practice, with respect to both U.S. and international privacy issues. Senior editor and contributing author Cynthia Rich is a senior international policy analyst in Morrison & Foerster's Washington, D.C., office, where she advises clients on privacy and transborder data transfers.

Global Employee Privacy and Data Security Law is also designed to be used with Morrison & Foerster's "Privacy Library," a free resource available at www.mofoprivacy.com, providing links to privacy laws, regulations, reports, multilateral agreements, and government authorities for virtually every country with data protection rules and regulations.

BNA is a leading private publisher of news and information products for professionals in law and business. In addition to Global Employee Privacy and Data Security Law, BNA's Book Division publishes Privacy in Employment Law; Employment Discrimination Law; Age Discrimination in Employment Law; The Fair Labor Standards Act; Wage and Hour Laws: A State-by-State Survey; The Developing Labor Law: The Board, the Courts, and the National Labor Relations Act; Discipline and Discharge in Arbitration; Reductions in Force in Employment Law; as well as other titles in legal specialties. For a free BNA Books catalog, call 1-800-960-1220 or send an e-mail request to books@bna.com.

Global Employee Privacy and Data Security Law may be purchased (750 pp Softcover/ ISBN 978-1-57018-805-3/Order #1805-PRY9/$250.00 plus tax, shipping, and handling) from BNA Books, PO Box 7814, Edison, NJ 08818-7814. Telephone orders: 1-800-960-1220. Fax orders: 1-732-346-1624. A 10 percent discount is available when ordering from the Web site (discounts cannot be combined).

Visit us at: bnabooks.com

This release can be downloaded from http://www.bnabooks.com/pressrelease/gep.pdf

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