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Big Brother Watch submission to the European Commission’s consultation on personal data protection in the EU

The 1995 Data Protection Directive put forth two important ideas on personal data, namely, that individuals have right
s and freedoms especially associated with personal data protection and that there should be free flow of personal data within the common market.  However, rapid technological change has opened up a whole new set of data protection challenges.

The Commission has stated a desire to address the following policy areas as a matter of urgency:

  • Addressing the impact of new technologies
  • Enhancing the internal market dimension of data protection (and providing for a disconnect between member states and their policies and the EU)
  • Addressing globalisation and improving international data transfers
  • Providing for a stronger institutional arrangement for the effective enforcement of data protection rules
  • Improving the coherence of the data protection legal framework

Click here to download a copy of our submission to the consultation.

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Big Brother Watch Posted in Databases, Online privacy
  • http://profile.typepad.com/6p01156f33fa02970c T .England. Raised from the dead.

    Have to wonder what the EU will make of these services?
    Amazon servers used to crack Wi-Fi passwords
    http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/01/hacker-uses-amazon-servers-to.html
    “Amazon provides a cluster of these processors for $2.10 per hour, allowing Roth to break into a Wi-Fi network for a theoretical cost of just 21 cents per password”

  • http://profile.typepad.com/6p01156f33fa02970c T .England. Raised from the dead.

    Web blocking discussions in European Parliament reach critical stage
    http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number9.1/web-blocking-campaign
    “eleven of the twelve parliamentarians who spoke were opposed to the introduction of mandatory EU-wide blocking”
    Ok some things should be blocked, but you have to wonder!!!!