Tag Archives: EDPS

Thinking Big about Data – the new EDPS Ethics Board

Posted By Susan Foster on September 18th, 2015 Posted in EDPS, EU Data Protection Regulation, European Union, Privacy Regulation

Giovanni Buttarelli, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), recently announced the formation of a new external Ethics Board that will do a deep dive into the complex ethical issues that surround the use of personal data in the “big data” economy. (See press release and full opinion links here.) The EDPS is particularly concerned… Continue Reading

EU Data Protection Regulation – Did you know there’s an app for that?

Posted By Susan Foster on August 6th, 2015 Posted in EU Data Protection Regulation, European Union, Legislation

As EU data protection watchers know, the draft General Data Protection Regulation (which has been around long enough to be universally referred to by its acronym, GDPR) exists in three major versions, with a fourth version recently released by the office of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). The EDPS is the EU’s own internal… Continue Reading