On April 6, 2011, the European Commission formally requested that Germany immediately comply with a March 9, 2010 judgment by the European Court of Justice concerning the independence of German data protection authorities.
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EU Agency for Fundamental Rights: Prosecutions and Sanctions for Violations of Data Protection Law Limited or Non-Existent
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According to a report issued by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, European data protection authorities lack sufficient independence and funding.
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Austrian DPA Approves SOX Whistleblowing Hotline but with Limitations
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On December 5, 2008, the Austrian data protection authority ("DPA") issued its first decision on the implementation of a whistleblowing hotline as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act ("SOX"), to be administered by the Austrian subsidiary of a U.S.-based company. The DPA partly approved the data transfers from the Austrian entity to the U.S. entity for…