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Participation in the LIBE Committee meeting

The Vice-Chair and Secretary of the Committee of Convention 108 are invited to present to the LIBE Committee the latest updates regarding the data protection work.

The presentation will  focus on the modernisation of Convention 108, the recently adopted guidelines on Big Data and Opinion on PNR, as well as the work currently underway regarding data protection in the police sector and the drafting of a recommendation on the protection of health-related data. The recent data protection highlights in ICANN58 and the work of the Committee of the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime will also be touched upon.

Presentation

headline Brussels 22 March 2017
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Protecting private life

You go somewhere, you buy something, you apply for a job, you pay your bills : you live... and at each of those moments of your life, your personal information is used, collected, processed. In order to protect your right to private life, with regard to the automatic processing of your personal data, the Council of Europe elaborated the "Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data".

Thirty years after its entry into force, this Convention still remains the only binding international legal instrument in the field, with a potential worldwide scope of application.

Convention 108+ Convention for the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data

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Handbook on European data protection law - 2018 edition

Handbook on European data protection law

The rapid development of information technology has exacerbated the need for robust personal data protection, the right to which is safeguarded by both European Union (EU) and Council of Europe (CoE) instruments. Safeguarding this important right entails new and significant challenges as technological advances expand the frontiers of areas such as surveillance, communication interception and data storage. This handbook is designed to familiarise legal practitioners not specialised in data protection with this emerging area of the law. It provides an overview of the EU’s and the CoE’s applicable legal frameworks. It also explains key case law, summarising major rulings of both the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights. In addition, it presents hypothetical scenarios that serve as practical illustrations of the diverse issues encountered in this ever-evolving field.

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