The members of the Article 31 committee (i.e. the Member States in “comitology” and chaired by a European Commission official pursuant to Article 31 of Directive 95/46/EC) were unable to reach an agreement on May 19, 2016. More time is necessary to evaluate the implications of the Privacy Shield. As we know, there must be an […]
On May 18, 2016, the European American Chamber of Commerce sponsored a discussion the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (Safe Harbor 2.0). The panel discussed the steps that brought to the agreement between the EU Commission and US Government. More information to this regard is available at http://www.technethics.com… The panel then discussed the key contents of the Privacy Shield. […]
On May 10, 2016, the French and the German competition law authorities issued a joint paper on competition law and data. The two authorities discussed how the collection, processing, and commercial use of data became a factor in establishing market power. “This paper aims to feed this debate by identifying some of the key issues […]
On May 12, 2016, the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) Campos Sánchez-Bordona presented his conclusions in Patrick Breyer v. Bundesrepublik Deutschland (case C‑582/14). The case deals with dynamic IP addresses, i.e. those IP (“Internet Protocol”) addresses dynamically assigned to a device by an access provider (usually a telephonic carrier). Mr. Breyer […]
The Network and Information security (NIS) Directive – which was put forward in 2013 by the Commission and aims at increasing cooperation between member states and laying down security obligations for operators of essential services and digital service providers – still awaits for the European Parliament second reading. An informal agreement on the proposal was reached […]
On May 4, 2016, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), (in short “GDPR” ) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The GDPR shall […]
On April 11, 2016, the European Commission opened a public consultation on the current text of the ePrivacy Directive (EU Directive 2002/58/EC on privacy and electronic communications). According to the EU Commission, following the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, see here), the ePrivacy rules will also need to be reviewed. The Commission […]
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), i.e. the United Kingdom’s Data Protection Authority, has prepared a checklist with 12 steps that organization can take now to prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which is expected to come into force in mid- 2018: Awareness: make sure that decision makers and key people in each organization must be […]
The European Parliament has approved the new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans, Vice-President in charge of the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip, and Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, Věra Jourová issued a joint statement welcoming the approval. Read more here. For more information, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal.
In its meeting of April 13, 2016 the WP29 issued a 57 pages opinion on the draft adequacy decision that the EU Commission made available on February 29, 2016. Together with the draft adequacy decision, the Commission disclosed a package of documents (including correspondence with its American counterparts). In order to give an opinion on […]