Problem Technologies for Data Protection
In a speech last month European Commissioner Viviane Reding gave an indication of some of the technologies and other developments perceived as causing problems for Europe's fifteen year old Data Protection law:
The new legal framework should address new challenges of the information age, such as globalisation, development of information technologies, the internet, online social networking, e-commerce, cloud computing, video surveillance, behavioural advertising, data security breaches, etc.
The Commission are currently analysing the responses to their consultation last year, and plan to publish later this year a proposal to update the Data Protection Directive. It will be interesting to see how these challenges, as well as the principles suggested in a previous speech by the Commissioner, are addressed.
