Basic data protection principles in the proposed Data Protection Regulation: Back to the Future?

In 2012, the European Commission proposed a major reform of the EU legal framework on the protection of personal data. The new proposals were intended to strengthen individual rights and tackle the challenges of globalisation and new technologies

The author suggests that the Council of the European Union is probably about to agree in March 2015 that the key principles of the law should remain as they were in 1995 – which might as well be 1985 (or even 1955) in terms of technology law.

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ESO: Background information: EU ministers back key pillar in data reform bill http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-ministers-back-key-pillar-in-data-reform-bill/

Blog: EU Law Analysis, 11.03.15: When super-regulators fight: the ‘one-stop shop’ in the proposed Data Protection Regulation http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/when-super-regulators-fight-one-stop.html

Statewatch: Statewatch Analysis, No.264, March 2015: Basic data protection principles in the proposed Data Protection Regulation: back to the future? http://statewatch.org/news/2015/mar/no-264-data-protection-back-to-the-future.pdf

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