EDPS Newsletter 24
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has newsletter Number 24 dated May 2010. The 17-page newsletter reports on EDPS opinions, Supervision and data privacy events.
The newsletter Highlight states:
“Reform of EU Data Protection law: EDPS calls on the European Commission to be ambitious in its approach
In a speech given at the European Privacy and Data Protection Commissioners' Conference in Prague on 29 April 2010, Peter Hustinx, EDPS, argued in favour of the need to be proactive in the context of the unfolding debate on the future of the EU legal framework for data protection. The EDPS called on the European Commission to remain ambitious in updating the existing framework to avoid the risk of an increasing loss of relevance and effectiveness of data protection in a society that is ever more driven by technological change and globalisation.
The stakes are not more and not less than how to ensure privacy and data protection in a highly developed Information Society of 2015, 2020 or beyond. An ambitious approach is the only way in which we can ensure that our privacy and personal data are well protected, also in the future. It is essential that the Commission comes up with proposals that take into account what is really needed and does not settle for less ambitious results. Peter Hustinx, EDPS
In his speech, Peter Hustinx stressed the key conditions for an effective legal framework to protect individual personal data in the EU. These included the need for a comprehensive legal framework to ensure more effectiveness, as well as the following main elements:
- integration of "privacy by design" and "privacy by default" in information and communication technologies;
- more accountability for controllers: data controllers should be made more accountable to ensure compliance with data protection rules in practice. This would bring significant added value for an effective implementation of data protection and would considerably help data protection authorities in supervision and enforcement;
- stronger enforcement powers for data protection authorities: it is essential that data protection authorities have sufficient resources to exercise their monitoring tasks and, if necessary, enforce compliance with data protection rules.”
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