Category Archives: Open Forum

EDPS mobile app

The European Data Protection Supervisor launched a mobile app to compare the latest texts proposed for theGeneral Data Protection Regulation from the Commission, the Parliament and the Council on tablets and smartphones. https://secure.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/edps/Consultation/Reform_package

The protection of personal data is an important concern for citizens

The protection of personal data remains an important concern for citizens, according to a new Eurobarometer published by the European Commission on data protection. The survey, titled “Data Protection “, has been requested by the Directorate-General  for Justice and Consumers and coordinated by the Directorate-General for Communication, is designed to support the finalization of the… Read More »

Overview of roadmap for General Data Protection Regulation

In the beginning of 2012 the European Commission published the first draft of the “Proposal for a Regulation on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data“. It has been about four years in the making and the final release of the new General Data Protection Regulation is expected to be… Read More »

Privacy and Cross Border in Banking #1

The issue of cross-border banking is one of the major topics of discussion in the European Union at the same level of Privacy. But are the two issues contaminated? Or do they at least present some overlaps? Let me recap some definitions. Oversimplifying, all those issues relating to the reconciliation and mutual adoption of regulatory… Read More »

Italy coordinates EU project

Italy gets funding from the EU Horizon 2020 program for the project Vision on visual management of privacy. the Project VisiOn (Visual Privacy Management in User Centric Open Environments), funded by the EU under the Horizon 2020 program with over 3.1 million Euros, is being coordinated by an Italian-Business. VisiOn has been selected in the… Read More »

The E.D.P.S. launches an app to follow the law

An app was released for mobile phones and tablets that allows to consult the work of European Institutions on the general rules for the protection of data. The Italian Giovanni Buttarelli launched the app on National and European data protection “to compare the latest changes in General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) brought by the co-legislating… Read More »