Here is the latest announcement from the European Commission concerning the reform of the data protection directive, following a meeting yesterday between the EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding
Here is the latest announcement from the European Commission concerning the reform of the data protection directive, following a meeting yesterday between the EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding and Germany's Federal Minister for Consumer Protection Ilse Aigner:
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/11/762&type=HTML
In a nutshell:
* The proposal will be published by the end of January 2012.
* Consumers in Europe should see their data strongly protected.
* Companies who direct their services to European consumers will be subject to EU data protection laws.
* Social networks will be caught by EU law, even where based in a third country and where data is stored in the cloud.
* Consumers must be more empowered than they are today, particularly by giving their explicit consent before their data is used and by having the right to delete their data at any time.
These are obviously very broad brush political statements but they suggest that a tougher regime is in the pipeline.
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/11/762&type=HTML
In a nutshell:
* The proposal will be published by the end of January 2012.
* Consumers in Europe should see their data strongly protected.
* Companies who direct their services to European consumers will be subject to EU data protection laws.
* Social networks will be caught by EU law, even where based in a third country and where data is stored in the cloud.
* Consumers must be more empowered than they are today, particularly by giving their explicit consent before their data is used and by having the right to delete their data at any time.
These are obviously very broad brush political statements but they suggest that a tougher regime is in the pipeline.