Last December, the Commission of the EU Parliament in charge approved the final text of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) thus closing the negotiation among EU Parliament, Commission and Council (the so called trilogue). Now only some formal approval steps are still missing to have it in force. Steps that shoul be completed… Read More »
Announcing the publication in the “La Comunicazione – Note, Recensioni e Notizie” magazine 2015 (Istituto Superiore delle Comunicazioni e delle Tecnologie dell’Informazione) of an article : Un modello per la valutazione dei rischi relativamente al trattamento dei dati personali nelle comunicazioni elettroniche (A risk assessment model regarding the personal data processing in electronic communications) by Alberto… Read More »
Europrivacy.info is organizing a meeting to start talking and working on the recently approved text of the GDPR on January 29 in Milan. This is just a “save the date”: more info will follow soon.
First step – #EuDataP compromise texts approved by LIBE Committe European Parliament – Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE Committee) On Thursday Dec 17, 2015 the LIBE Committee confirmed the Data Protection Reform (both Regulation and Directive). The Committee approved the Regulation by 48 votes to 4, with 4 abstention. The Directive was… Read More »
While waiting for the official announcement from the EU Council, expected by next week, hereafter there is a link to the final version of the GDPR which was agreed upon yesterday: last version
On Tuesday (December 15, 2015) evening, after nearly four years since the Commission tabled its proposal (in January 2012), the European Institutions (European Commission, European Parliament, Council of the European Union) during the last trilogue meeting have finally reached a deal on the (new) Data Protection Regulation. First of all, to point out some relevant… Read More »
Members of the European Parliament and national governments are in final negotiations to find an agreement on a new EU-wide data protection law. Just one more trilogue meeting (on Tue Dec 15, 2015) to conclude the final release of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), a text that’s been subject of intense negotiation for almost four… Read More »
Data Protection Officer is mandatory, again. Article 35 of the latest version of GDPR states that “The controller and processor shall designate a data protection officer in any case where: […] “. To clearly understand which controllers and processors are included in such categories, the local language versions – and perhaps some comments – are needed. Controller… Read More »
Keynote speech at ‘EU Data Protection 2015 Regulation Meets Innovation’ event San Francisco, 8 December 2015 Giovanni Buttarelli … “First, with or without the GDPR, for all sectors of society and the economy, data protection has become more serious than ever before. Second, with or without the GDPR, data protection has gone, is going, and… Read More »
Last week we wrote (here) about a meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the EU Council. Apparently the meeting was canceled and rescheduled for today. In the meantime the text of the GDPR has changed. The latest version is available here.