European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights Releases its “Handbook on European data protection law – 2018 edition”

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights has released the updated 2018 edition of the "Handbook on European data protection law" which provides us with an understanding of the European Union and Council of Europe's applicable data protection legal frameworks. The handbook is particularly useful in that in addition to providing an overview of EU data protection law, it ...

COE adopts Guidelines on #BIGDATA

On 23 January 2017 the Consultative Committee of the Council of Europe´s data protection convention  adopted Guidelines on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data in a world of Big Data which provide suggested measures for preventing any possible negative effects of the use of Big Data on human rights and ...