Comments on: UK Home Office admit losing the data of 3 million http://www.delusionofgrandeur.co.uk/2007/12/18/uk-home-office-admit-losing-the-data-of-3-million/ ours is not to reason why Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:38:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: C Edel http://www.delusionofgrandeur.co.uk/2007/12/18/uk-home-office-admit-losing-the-data-of-3-million/#comment-235 C Edel Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:00:43 +0000 http://www.delusionofgrandeur.co.uk/2007/12/18/uk-home-office-admit-losing-the-data-of-3-million/#comment-235 The EU has established the Safe Harbour provision whereby US organisations can self certify that they will and can comply with Directive 95/46/EC. See COMMISSION DECISION of pursuant to Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the adequacy of the protection provided by the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles and related Frequently Asked Questions issued by the US Department of Commerce. This gets round principle 8 & allows US companies to process EU member states data. Pearson VUE which is the trading name of Pearson Driving Assessments Limited (the people who lost the drive) is listed by the US department of Commerce on the safe Harbour list. It signed up to safe harbor 06/11/2002 18:00:50 and its next certification is due on 06/11/2008. Pearson Driving Assessments Limited is a subsidary of Pearson plc . As such under its alter ego Pearson VUE, it is the electronic testing business of Pearson, servicing the Health & Medicine, Information Technology, Academic/Admissions, Driving Licence, Employment & Human Resources and Financial Services industries. Pearson VUE has operational centres in the United States, Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, India and China. There two points Is this multi-national dealing with our medical records and if so where? The other is that safe harbor is not working and what's the EU Commission doing about it? The EU has established the Safe Harbour provision whereby US organisations can self certify that they will and can comply with Directive 95/46/EC. See COMMISSION DECISION of pursuant to Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the adequacy of the protection provided by the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles and related Frequently Asked Questions issued by the US Department of Commerce. This gets round principle 8 & allows US companies to process EU member states data.

Pearson VUE which is the trading name of Pearson Driving Assessments Limited (the people who lost the drive) is listed by the US department of Commerce on the safe Harbour list. It signed up to safe harbor 06/11/2002 18:00:50 and its next certification is due on 06/11/2008. Pearson Driving Assessments Limited is a subsidary of Pearson plc . As such under its alter ego Pearson VUE, it is the electronic testing business of Pearson, servicing the Health & Medicine, Information Technology, Academic/Admissions, Driving Licence, Employment & Human Resources and Financial Services industries. Pearson VUE has operational centres in the United States, Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, India and China.

There two points

Is this multi-national dealing with our medical records and if so where?

The other is that safe harbor is not working and what’s the EU Commission doing about it?

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