Last week, the American Bar Association adopted a rule calling on U.S. courts to “consider and respect, as appropriate, the data protection and privacy laws of any applicable foreign sovereign . . . with regard to data sought in discovery in civil litigation.” In an extensive report accompanying the new rule, the ABA detailed the tensions that exist between the liberal discovery standards under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the strict data protection regimes in many foreign countries.
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