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.
Additional EDPS Comments of on the Data Protection Reform Package
Speech of Peter Hustinx given at the EESC Conference "Towards a more responsible use of the internet - The European civil society perspective" - Brussels
Written contribution of Peter Hustinx to the Conference on "Security of e-Government", European Parliament, Brussels
Speech of Peter Hustinx given during the reception at the Exhibition "A Look Inside", hosted together with the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and the Belgian Data Protection Authority (CBPL-CPVP), Brussels
Article by Peter Hustinx based on a lecture delivered at the 5th Swiss Data Protection Law Day on 15 June 2012 at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Published in: Astrid Epiney /Tobias Fasnacht (Hrsg./ed.), "Die Entwicklung der europarechtlichen Vorgaben im Bereich des Datenschutzes und Implikationen für die Schweiz" / "Le développement du droit européen en matière de protection des données et ses implications pour la Suisse", Zürich 2012, p. 15-21.