#CoE Treaty No.108: Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data

The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers has approved the modernisation of Treaty No. 108, Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data. The amending protocol will be formally adopted next week by the  Committee of Ministers  during their annual ministerial session on 18 May 2018 in Elsinore (Denmark). In it's Summary Report on co-operation between the ...

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 ...