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A la une
(11/06/2013)
Committee of Ministers adopts Declaration on Risks to Fundamental
Rights stemming from Digital Tracking and other Surveillance
Technologies
In
a
Declaration issued to
governments, the Committee of Ministers say that legislation allowing
for overly broad surveillance of citizens can challenge their privacy
and have a chilling effect on their freedom
of expression and the freedom of the media.
Previously
- Strasbourg, 15.05.2013: The Russian Federation
ratified the Convention for the Protection of
Individuals with regard to automatic processing of personal data.
The treaty will enter into force for that country on 1 September
2013. Russia is the 46th state to become party to Convention 108.
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- Uruguay
becomes the first non-European state to accede to personal data
protection “Convention 108”
- Data Protection Day (28 01 2013): the Council of Europe is today celebrating Data Protection Day (more)
- Modernisation Proposals adopted by the 29th Plenary meeting
- Beyond: Is your personal data under your control?
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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.
Contacts
Calendar and Events
Global standard
- Benefits for CoE non-Member States
- Accession
- New Impetus
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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
Articles, Speeches & Presentations
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"La protection des données dans la jurisprudence de la Cour
européenne des droits de l'Homme"
Speech of Mr Dean Spielmann, President of the European Court of Human Rights (in French only, Luxembourg, 28 01 2013)
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"Data Protection in the field of Police and Prosecution"
Presentation - Mr Graham Sutton
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Data Protection & Social Network
Dr. Ian Brown University of Oxford - podcast
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Europe proposes global data protection laws
Interview Sophie Kwasny
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Data Protection Convention Undergoes a Rewrite
(en anglais)
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Convention 108 as a global privacy standard?
Jörg Polakiewicz's speech on the occasion of the International Data Protection Conference in Budapest
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Thorbjørn Jagland, underlines the current challenge to privacy
"1.2 zettabytes of a challenge"
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A new era for privacy
Thorbjørn Jagland, article in EuropeanVoice.com (More...)