Court Says Video Deposition Doesn’t Violate EU Privacy Law

A company representative can’t rely on the EU’s privacy law to avoid a video-recorded deposition because prior notice is considered consent, a federal magistrate ruled.

Protections under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation “are directed to the use of videotaped images of persons unaware (at least, initially) of being videotaped,” Magistrate Judge P. Bradley Murray of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama wrote.

But Nikka Finance Inc.'s records custodian Paul Coronis “is well aware his deposition is to be videotaped,” Murray wrote in denying the protective order to halt the deposition in a maritime dispute.

Coronis ...