The phrase "data protection practices" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to procedures taken to protect data from being accessed, stolen, or misused. For example: "Our company follows strict data protection practices to ensure that our customers' information is kept safe."
The news comes after the invalidation of the 15-year-old safe harbour agreement, which deemed European citizens' data transferred between the EU and US as being adequately protected, allowing US companies to self certify their data protection practices.
Irish officials appeared to dispute that view, and were concluding a second audit of the company's data protection practices.
He also took a reporter to task for failing to sufficiently investigate the campaigns' claims about their data protection practices.
Irish officials are concluding a second audit of the company's data protection practices, said a spokeswoman for the Irish Data Protection Commission.
"I obviously think we have achieved a lot in Ireland by getting Facebook to improve its transparency and data protection practices".
He told the company to delete the information "as soon as it is legally cleared to do so" and ordered an audit of its data protection practices.
Ross McKean, partner, Olswang Ross is a partner at international technology, media and telecoms law firm Olswang and leads the firm's data protection practice.
Editor's note: Randy Sabett is the vice chair of the privacy and data protection practice group at Cooley and the former commissioner of the commission on cyber security for the 44th presidency.
Mr. Burlison's complaint spurred the Information Commissioner's Office, a privacy watchdog organization, to investigate Facebook's data-protection practices, the BBC reported last month.
The European Union's 1995 data-protection directive requires firms to assess their data-protection practices and to document how they handle sensitive information.
