Deputy Power forwarded it to the Data Protection Commissioner - and also a third party - and in doing that he breached the Data Protection Code.

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However, in 1976 the Supreme Court ruled that personal data given to a third party loses its Fourth Amendment protection.

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Under the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), a file stored on a hard drive in your home has greater protection than information stored with a third-party.

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Senator Sherrod Brown will hold hearings next Thursday, April 11 in the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection on the role of the third-party consultants in this process.

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In any case, liability coverage would offer great protection if a gun was lost, stolen or used by a third party to commit a crime.

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The commitment came in response to a question from a cross-party group of MEPs on 15 February 2012 on the impact of third country legislation on EU data protection laws.

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In its first public enforcement action, the CFPB found that third-party call-center vendors of Capital One Bank pressured or misled customers into paying for payment protection and credit monitoring products when they activated their credit cards, according to a press release.

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