Wednesday 29 February 2012

Paul Ticher's Data Protection Update - February 2012

Computanews’s data protection correspondent Paul Ticher updates us on European Union proposals for significant changes to data protection law.

Main points

The current EU Data Protection Directive was agreed in 1995, when the web was in its infancy. There is general agreement that there have to be changes to cope with the technological developments since then and experience of Data Protection in practice.

This is a proposed Regulation. It has to be approved by the Council of Ministers who might make changes or they could even throw it out altogether, but that’s unlikely.

watch this space [no need for that, I’ll watch it for you]. Or read all 119 pages of the General Data Protection Regulation (PDF)


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