EDPS Newsletter 57
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EAG Report 2018
The report by the EDPS' Ethics Advisory Group will help advance the debate on digital ethics that the EDPS will continue, focusing on how we can make technology work in the interests of human dignity, culminating at the 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners which the EDPS will co-host in October 2018.
Time running out to ensure effective data protection in the EU institutions
Through the GDPR, the EU has lead the way in safeguarding fundamental rights in the digital age.
Read latest blogpost by Giovanni Buttarelli.
Thinking global, acting local
On 25 September 2017, in the margins of the 39th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Hong Kong, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Privacy, Digital Asia Hub and the European Data Protection Supervisor hosted a meeting with a difference.
Our aim with this meeting was to start a conversation with people from around the world about the values that they think underpin privacy in their countries to see what the similarities and differences are.
Read the summary.
Open letter to the global civil society
The EDPS has published an open letter to the global civil society regarding the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners.
Less is sometimes more
Data protection should not be subject to trade negotiations. Read latest blogspost by Giovanni Buttarelli.
EDPS calls for consistency in EU approach to criminal records
There is a clear need for the EU to develop a more efficient system for exchanging information on the criminal records of non-EU citizens. At the same time, any proposal to update the current system must ensure consistency with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the Lisbon Treaty and fully respect data protection principles. Read the EDPS Opinion and press release.
It’s not the end of the world as we know it
In the last few weeks, I have been asked to look beyond the GDPR to imagine future scenarios for regulation of digital rights in the EU and around the world.
Read blogpost by Giovanni Buttarelli.
