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Data Protection Day: the Council of Europe is organising 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...).
Press release

Speech by Crispin Blunt MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (UK)

Speech by Ambassador Torbjørn Frøysnes, Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe to the European Union in Brussels

Speech by Jörg Polakiewicz "Profiling - The Council of Europe's contribution"

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

 

Previously

 
27th T-PD Plenary Meeting (29 Nov. - 2 Dec. 2011)
Speech of the Council of Europe Secretary General
Agenda
Abridged Report
 
Conference in Vienna , Austria, 24 and 25 November (a.m) 2011
"Our Internet - Our Rights, Our Freedoms", Towards the Council of Europe Strategy on Internet Governance 2012-2015
Comments by Ms Catherine Pozzo di Borgo
 
33rd International Conference of Data Protection and privacy Commissioners – 2-3 November 2011, Mexico City  

Speech by Jörg Polakiewicz (anglais uniquement) - OCDE Conference : Current Developments in Privacy Frameworks: Towards Global Interoperability

Power Point presentation : Global Standards linked to Global Value

IGF (6th  Internet Governance Forum) – 27-30 September 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
 
International Data Protection Conference – 21 September 2011, Warsaw - Poland
Opening intervention of Mr Jörg Polakiewicz
Intervention of Mr Jean-Philippe Walter (only in french)
 

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.


   

Calendar and Events

 
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 on "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
 
Council of Europe points to the Data Protection Convention as global standard
 
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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