With what appears to be its first privacy-related consent agreement with a non-U.S. business, the Federal Trade Commission establishes that its reach is extraterritorial and that consumer internet browsing data is sensitive data, and there are lessons for any multinational business that handles consumer information, say Olivia Greer and Alexis Bello at Weil.
The meeting also witnessed the discussion of current and future cooperation projects between Egypt and Germany in the field of communications and information technology, including the existing cooperation between the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) within the framework of the project “Supporting Innovation and E-Government”.