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28th T-PD Plenary Meeting
(from 19 to 22 June 2012 in Strasbourg)
 
Oxford Privacy Information Law and Society Conference
(12 June 2012)
"The right to be forgotten" and beyond: Data Protection and Freedom of Expression in the Age of Web 2.0
http://www.csls.ox.ac.uk/oxpilsconference

Beyond: Is your personal data under your control?
Download the video clip here

Previously

 
27th T-PD Bureau Meeting
(from 16 to 18 April in Paris)
 
 Data Protection Day: the Council of Europe has organised in  Brussels, on 27 January 2012 together with the International Conference on Computer, Privacy and Data Protection a session enabling a multistakeholder consultation on the proposals of modification of Convention 108 (more...).
 

Data Protection


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".

30 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.


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Data protection day
 
Key activities 2012
 

Global Standard

 
Benefits for CoE non-Member States
 
Accession
 
New Impetus
 
Press release:
CoE points to the Data Protection Convention as global standard
 
Paper from Prof. Graham Greenleaf
"The influence of European Data Privacy standards outside Europe: implications for globalisation of Convention 108"
 
Spanish Versions
 

Press Articles

Europe proposes global data protection laws
Interview Sophie Kwasny
 
Data Protection Convention Undergoes a Rewrite
 
Europarat will datenschutzkonvention zum globalen Minimialstandard machen
 
Press kit
 
Convention 108 as a global privacy standard?
Jörg Polakiewicz's speech on the occasion of the International Data Protection Conference in Budapest
 
Thorbjørn Jagland,  underlines the current challenge to privacy : "1.2 zettabytes of a challenge"

A new era for privacy by Thorbjørn Jagland - Article in EuropeanVoice.com
 
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