On March 12, 2014, the European Parliament approved in its plenary section the Commission’s data protection reform proposal. The reform consists of two bills: a Regulation setting out a general EU framework for data protection and a Directive on protecting personal data processed for the purposes of prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of criminal offences […]
72 Maryland Law Review 335 (2013) Ohio State Public Law Working Paper 204 Abstract In its draft Data Protection Regulation, the European Union has announced a major new economic and human right – the right to data portability (‘RDP’). The basic idea of the RDP is that an individual would be able to transfer his […]
Tags: DATA PROTECTION, INTERNATIONAL DATA PROTECTION, US PRIVACY
On January 25, 2012: “The European Commission…proposed a comprehensive reform of the EU’s 1995 data protection rules to strengthen online privacy rights and boost Europe’s digital economy. Technological progress and globalisation have profoundly changed the way our data is collected, accessed and used. In addition, the 27 EU Member States have implemented the 1995 rules […]
Conclusion of the Article: “New conflicts in information privacy loom ahead for the US and the EU due to the Proposed Data Protection Regulation of the EU. This document, which creates directly binding law for all EU Member States, alters the current equilibrium achieved under the Data Protection Directive of 1995. The Directive stimulated a […]
Tags: DATA PROTECTION, US PRIVACY
Author discusses how the European Union plans to update its Data Protection Directive More information on the Proposed Data Protection Regulation available here. The full text is available at: https://cdt…
Europeans have the right to disappear from a search engine’s results under certain conditions. Directive 46/1995 as interpreted by Google Spain judgment (Case C-131/12) and GDPR Article 17. This is the so called “right to be forgotten” or right of erasure (also known as de-referencing or de-listing). The Court of Justice of the European Union […]
In June 2018 the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) published a draft list of processing operations for which it is mandatory to conduct a data protection impact assessment (DPIA). The list is intended to encompass both national and cross-border data processing under Article 35 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). With a view to […]
Cookie regulation in Europe is quite strict. In a previous blog we discussed the cookie law of France, Germany, Italy and the UK, focusing on information to users, user consent and consequences of violations. However, cookies are not the only method to track users. There are cookie-free tracking methods that are similarly invasive, for example […]
by Jonathan Armstrong, Gayle McFarlane, André Bywater As anticipated the Article 29 Working Party (often known as WP29), a group of the EU’s data protection regulators met in Brussels today to discuss the European Commission’s Privacy Shield scheme, the proposed replacement for Safe Harbor. As we had anticipated in our earlier alerts WP29 decided that in their view […]
As anticipated the Article 29 Working Party (often known as WP29), a group of the EU’s data protection regulators met in Brussels today to discuss the European Commission’s Privacy Shield scheme, the proposed replacement for Safe Harbor. As we had anticipated in our earlier alerts WP29 decided that in their view Privacy Shield does not […]