Both GDPR and UK GDPR restrict profiling and solely automated decision-making in protecting personal, private data. This raises serious questions about organizations’ ability to use big data to analyze and interact with customers. Can this be done under GDPR and UK GDPR?
Do continued EU data flows to the United Kingdom offer hope for the United States?
European Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova looks on at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium March 10, 2021. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/Pool
As the Biden administration and the European Commission “intensify” negotiations to re-establish a stable transatlantic data-transfer framework, Brussels separately is moving ahead to enable unrestricted data flows with two other major trading partners: the United Kingdom and the Republic of Korea.
In announcing the Commission’s preliminary “adequacy” decision for the United Kingdom on February 19, Commission Vice President Věra Jourová said that while it “has left the EU,” the United Kingdom remains a member of “the European privacy family.” The Commission’s announcement offers Washington a ray of hope. If the European Union (EU) welcomes back to the fold an ex-member with wide-ranging surveillance programs, then t
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News & Events Council of Europe Office in Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine 6 April 2021 Diminuer la taille du texte Augmenter la taille du texte Imprimer la page Imprimer en PDF
Ukrainian lawyers now have an opportunity to read the Handbook on European data protection law edition 2018 in Ukrainian.
The Handbook has been prepared by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), with the Council of Europe (together with the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights) and the European Data Protection Supervisor.
The Joint Project “European Union and Council of Europe working together to strengthen the Ombudsperson’s capacity to protect human rights” has translated the Handbook into Ukrainian.
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Tunisia’s protests and the slippery slope to censorship and repression 4 February 2021 | 4:32 am
This year did not start on a good note for Tunisia. On the tenth anniversary of Tunisia’s revolution, January 14, hundreds of young Tunisians in different parts of the country, particularly marginalized and impoverished areas, took to the streets in protest against poverty and social and economic inequality, as well as police brutality. The government responded to Tunisia’s protests with an iron fist, a move we strongly condemn.
Tunisian police used lethal force against protesters, many of whom are students and teenagers, leading to a tragic death. Around 1,500 protesters were arbitrarily detained for joining the protests or expressing their views online. Members of security forces are smearing and doxxing women activists online, phoning their families to shame them, and forcefully outing queer activists to their families and the public. In one horrifying account, a w