The proposed Regulation on Data Protection is unique in many ways. It will regulate business but it is also legislation that will set the standard for the protection of the fundamental right to privacy and data protection in Europe for many...
Government surveillance of communications is one of the most fundamental threats to personal privacy posed by the modern state. As we become increasingly inseparable from our devices, we habitually communicate more and more information about ourselves, our habits, our...
In the context of the European Privacy and Data Protection Day, we continue to build on the idea of 'observing' and 'being observed', but in this case, as an artist. What opportunities and difficulties do artists - from diverse artistic fields - face today in this respect? ...
“Ensuring stronger, more effective and more consistent protection of personal data in the European Union”
When the Directive 95/46/EC was adopted, the Internet was still hardly visible and far from its present highly dynamic reality. We now live in a...
A popular maxim in IT circles states, “you can have security without privacy, but you can’t have privacy without security”, I would add that “you cannot have privacy without transparency” as well...
All the challenges that a company like Microsoft Corporation now...
On January 28, the world celebrates Privacy Day, a day in which events are held around the world to recognize the importance of privacy for our human values and fundamental freedoms. European Privacy Day 2013 is a platform that gives visibility to events, organised by governmental and other institutions and civil society,that draw the attention to the value privacy and data protection have in our societies or engage the citizen in privacy relevant activities.