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[UPDATE: the Directive has now been published, with Member States required to transpose it into their national laws by 9 May 2018]
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The European Council of Ministers have now published a proposed text for the General Data Protection Regulation. This still needs to be edited by the Commission's "lawyer-linguists" to check for inconsistencies, sort out the numbering of recitals and articles etc. But the working parties of both the Parliament and the Council have recommended that the resulting text should be adopted by the respective full bodies at meetings in the next couple of months.
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The Article 29 Working Party of European data protection supervisors had hoped to make a full statement on the EU/US Safe Harbor agreement at the end of January. However this has now been postponed, probably until mid-April. The European Court of Justice declared last October that the original Safe Harbor did not guarantee adequate protection when personal data were transferred from Europe to the USA.
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After more than three years of discussion, all three components of the European law making process have now produced their proposed texts for a General Data Protection Regulation should look like.
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Last week the European Commission published their proposed new Data Protection legislation. This will now be discussed and probably amended by the European Parliament and Council of Ministers before it becomes law, a process that most commentators expect to take at least two years. There's a lot in the proposal so this post will just cover the general themes.
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ENISA’s new report proposing a "Security Framework for Governmental Clouds" may be more widely useful than its title and explicit scope suggest.
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At the moment both cloud computing providers and their business customers in Europe have to deal with at least twenty-eight different interpretations of Data Protection law. And there are nearly as many different national rules and formalities when using non-European cloud providers (the UK approach is described in the Information Commissioner’s Guide to Cloud Computing).
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The Article 29 Working Party have published an explanatory document on Binding Corporate Rules for Data Processors, to provide further detail on using the template they published last year.
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Last year the Article 29 Working Party published an Opinion on Cloud Computing expressing concern at the information available to those considering moving services to the cloud about the protection that cloud services offered for their data.
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ENISA’s Critical Cloud Computing report examines cloud from a Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIIP) perspective: what is the impact on society of outages or attacks? The increasing adoption of the cloud model has both benefits and risks.
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