EU: Tyco Fined for Overseas Transfers of Personal Data
The French data protection authority has fined a subsidiary of US firm Tyco Healthcare over the transfer of employee information across borders and inadequate data safeguards. Tyco Healthcare France was fined €30,000.More here.
It is believed to be the first time that a US-based multinational has been fined for unauthorised overseas transfers of personal data.
La Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL) has imposed the fine after discovering that Tyco's human resources database was using personally identifiable information more extensively than the company had admitted.
Tyco notified CNIL in 2004 that it was operating a human resources database containing personal information, as required by French law.
When at a later date CNIL requested further information from the company, Tyco said that it had stopped using the database. An inspection in 2006 by CNIL found that not only was the database active, but that it was being used more extensively than the company had indicated.
posted by Fergie @ 5/27/2007 06:14:00 PM
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