The financial crisis has emphasised the need to harmonise rules on the functioning of financial markets, a crucial source of financing in today´s economy. The EU actively tries to improve, in particular, the accountability of financial institutions and transparency of financial markets, at the same time combatting tax evasion and money laundering. These legitimate policies often require, in practice, the collection, use and storage of large amounts of personal information. Therefore, it is necessary to balance public policy objectives with the fundamental rights to privacy and data protection.
Prior Checking Opinion on Antifraud Transit Information System (ATIS) at the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) (Case 2013-1296)
The December 2015 edition of the EDPS Newsletter covers the EDPS Opinions on Big Data and Digital Ethics and many other EDPS activities.
Keynote address of Giovanni Buttarelli given at the Banking and Payments Federation, Ireland
Opinion on a notification for prior checking receivedfrom the Data Protection Officer of the European Investment Fund (EIF) regarding data processing in the context of the transactional due diligence process (Case 2014-0725)
Opinion on the EU-Switzerland agreement on the automatic exchange of tax information