In end of March, a member of California Assembly has brought in a bill which would give each customer a right to access their data. Will California follow the European style privacy rules?
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Romania is one of the European countries who have implemented electronic passports, which also include biometric data (facial image and fingerprints of the holder) in an electronic chip. The Romanian authorities never published any privacy impact assessment or security audit on the IT systems they are using and didn't publish any technical details, always claiming that it is fulfills "the best standards on biometric passport".
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A timeline towards the publication of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation is a crucial factor for companies looking for EU wide data protection compliance and perhaps new opportunities of data processing. The current activities of the respective committee give an idea of when the harmonised set of rules will be applicable in the member states.
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A few weeks ago, the German government published a response to an inquiry of the delegate Andrej Hunko and the parliamentary group “Die Linke”. It states - inter alia - that German investigators can access data stored in US-American clouds.
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Uruguay ratified Convention 108 of the Council of Europe on the protection of individuals with regard to automatic processing of personal data on April 10, 2013.
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The 29 Working Party has recently adopted an opinion on which the concept of purpose limitation is deeply analysed. The key of purpose limitation is its goal: “protect the data subjects by setting limits on how controllers are able to use their data” and that’s how it is and should be connected with Big Data and Open Data in order to deal with the privacy risks they raise.
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This Monday, I attended the Information Commissioner's Office Roundtable in London, where topics like "Big data" and the "Midata"-project were being discussed vividly.
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The recent "Data Retention Operation" by the Italian DPA revealed that compliance with data retention legislation among telecom and internet service providers is still considerably low.
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I am taking the occasion to publish my first entry on this blog and to share with all of you an interview that I had with the company NYMITY regarding compliance for generating the Privacy Notice under Mexico’s data protection legal framework.
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On February 27, 2013 the Court of Appeals of Milan released the reasons that led to the acquittal of three Google executives over privacy and defamation charges. The three executives were convicted in first instance for a violation of privacy and data protection legislation.
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