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The European Commission recently revised its explanatory note on dawn raids to clarify that employees' personal devices and media can be searched during raids.
The European Commission recently revised its
explanatory note on dawn raids to clarify that employees'
personal devices and media can be searched during raids. The
revised note further explains that Commission officials may search
the company's IT environment as well as storage media, such as
external hard disks, backup tapes and cloud services. Business
executives should therefore be prepared to give up their personal
smartphones for inspection if used for work purposes. In addition,
IT personnel should be trained to assist the Commission officials
with specific tasks, such as temporarily blocking individual email
accounts, temporarily disconnecting running computers from the
network, removing and re-installing hard drives, and providing
administrator-access rights.
De Brauw has developed a dawn raid app that offers practical
information on what to do during a dawn raid and outlines the
follow-up steps to take after the raid. Click on the link below to
go to the app.
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