The General Data Protection Regulation: Making the world a better place?
Keynote speech given by Giovanni Buttarelli at 'EU Data Protection 2015 Regulation Meets Innovation' event, San Francisco, United States
Following many years of intense political debate on data protection in the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will finally become law across the EU in May 2018 and is designed to be the cornerstone of data protection in Europe. It sets out directly applicable rules on the rights of data subjects, the duties of those organisations that demand the processing of personal data and those that do the processing (data controllers and processors), international data transfers and the powers of supervisory authorities.
Keynote speech given by Giovanni Buttarelli at 'EU Data Protection 2015 Regulation Meets Innovation' event, San Francisco, United States
Europe’s big opportunity, EDPS recommendations on the EU’s options for data protection reform
The August 2015 edition of the EDPS Newsletter covers EDPS recommendations on the reform of EU data protection legislation, the publication of the 2014 EDPS Annual Report, the EDPS Opinion on Mobile Health and many other EDPS activities.
This report sets out the Strategy adopted by the EDPS for the period 2015-2019. As data protection affects almost every EU policy area and is a key factor in legitimising and increasing trust in EU policies, the new EDPS Strategy aims to provide a framework through which to promote a culture of data protection in the European institutions. It also promotes the idea of toolkits for policymakers to help them develop innovative solutions to data protection challenges.
Europe’s big opportunity, EDPS recommendations on the EU’s options for data protection reform