EU Ministers Agree in Principle to New Data Protection Oversight. Data protection case law of European Court of Human Rights, Jan. Euro-deputies weaken data protection law. BCR launched. P Hustinx opinion on DP. SaaS open letter. Omer Tene DPD innovative. DPD review to apply to FB. EU DP united but not UK. How will data protection and cloud computing develop in 2014? After Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing around Prism, how quickly will legislators respond to calls for increased data security?
Photograph: The Guardian/AFP/Getty Images Data protection is coming of age. 2014 means it's 16 years since the Data Protection Act was enacted, but the technical environment has evolved almost beyond recognition in that time. In the wake of Edward Snowden's spectacular whistleblowing around Prism in 2013 the question is whether 2014 will be a year spent wondering how safe our personal data is, or one where legislators respond to industry and consumer calls for better data security.
US Consumer Bill of RightsThe US will have to work hard in 2014 to shrug off the Snowden revelations. Obama's defence of the NSA may be 'party line', but since 2012, his administration has been pushing for an overhaul of privacy protection with the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. In 2014, this US wide legislation might well make it into the statute books. Privacy? What privacy? EU's draft law on your data is useless, say digital rights orgs. Amsterdam Privacy Conference. The European Commission’s proposed new Data Protection Regulation would make data protection impact assessments (otherwise known as privacy impact assessments, PIAs) mandatory “where processing operations present specific risks to the rights and freedoms of data subjects”.
In view of the hundreds of thousands of companies and government departments that process personal data across Europe1, Article 33 of the proposed Regulation could have far-reaching consequences – in the costs and benefits of conducting a PIA. However, there is no agreed methodology for conducting a PIA. In fact, there are several differing methodologies – for example, in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK and the US.
Justice - Data Protection - Documents adopted by the Data Protection Working Party - 2007. 52008PC0723. Amended proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council Amending Directive 2002/22/EC on universal service and users’ rights relating to electronic communications networks, Directive 2002/58/EC concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sectors and Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 on consumer protection cooperation (Text with EEA relevance) /* COM/2008/0723 final - COD 2007/0248 */ [pic] | COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES | Brussels, 6.11.2008 COM(2008)723 final Amended proposal for a.
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Com_2012_11_en. Advertisement. Telecoms: Commission launches case against UK over privacy and personal data protection. Brussels, 14 April 2009 “Technologies like internet behavioural advertising can be useful for businesses and consumers but they must be used in a way that complies with EU rules. These rules are there to protect the privacy of citizens and must be rigorously enforced by all Member States," said EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding.
“We have been following the Phorm case for some time and have concluded that there are problems in the way the UK has implemented parts of EU rules on the confidentiality of communications. I call on the UK authorities to change their national laws and ensure that national authorities are duly empowered and have proper sanctions at their disposal to enforce EU legislation on the confidentiality of communications. This should allow the UK to respond more vigorously to new challenges to ePrivacy and personal data protection such as those that have arisen in the Phorm case. Background A detailed overview of telecoms infringement proceedings is available at: Print Page - EU Agency for Fundamental Rights: UK Fails to Implement Data Protection. "People across the EU are very concerned about their right to data protection, for example, but if data protection authorities do not have the power to take action against those who infringe that right, we run the risk that the right becomes meaningless.
" - Morten Kjaerum, FRA Director It speaks of 'severe concerns as to the effective independence of the Data Protection Authority' in the UK. Data Protection: The Eight Data Protection Principles.