We all have those kind of moment, especially ladies! Those mornings after bathing when you ask yourself what you are going to wear, which blouse will match your skirt. Well, don't worry anymore! Amazon has it all figured out. Let me introduce you « Amazon Echo look », from Amazon Echo's family. Echo…
This year Microsoft brought a lot of improvements and conveniences with its new OS Windows 10 but people started analyzing its privacy policy and became concerned over how the operating system is using their data. There is no doubt that Windows 10 revolutionized the operating systems for PC’s, both…
Le 6 octobre 2015, la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne invalide « Safe Harbor », l’accord relatif au transfert des données à caractère personnel de l’Europe vers les États-Unis. source http://www.instantshift.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ghosb-08.jpg # Qu'est-ce que le Safe Harbor? Le label « Safe Harbor », en Français « Sphère de sécurité », est une décision de la…
Do you know that EU data protection laws (EU data protection Directive 95/46/EC) prohibits transfers of personal data to countries deemed to lack adequate protection for personal data unless those transfers are governed by certain legal mechanisms? The European Commission has determined that the U.S. doesn’t have adequate protections. So,…
Protecting personal Data at the time of the Internet of things is kind of a difficult stake. Nowadays it is possible, thanks to the concept of Privacy by design established by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Dr Ann. Cavoukian.
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Privacy and protection of personal data is a relatively new field for the legislative framework in Romania. Being a member of the European Union since January 1st, 2007, Romania implemented the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC into the national legislation in November 2001 through Law no 677/2001 on the protection of individuals with regards to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data (« The Data Protection Law« ).
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The data protection law applies to the processing of personal data performed, totally or partially, through automatic means, as well as to the processing through means other than automatic. Its provisions also address crucial factors such as legitimate processing, data quality, definitions of the fundamental terms (e.g. operator, data subject, processing etc.), the rights of the data subjects and the obligations of the operators of personal data, and it designates the Romanian Supervisory Authority on data protection.
In addition to providing guarantees in relation to the collection and processing of personal data, it outlaws the processing of « sensitive » data on a person’s race, politics, health, religion, sexual life, criminal record, etc., in the absence of proper legal safeguards. (suite…)
The 25th of June 2012, Gilles Babinet was nominated by Fleur Pellerin as « French representative of the digital champions program of the European Union ». He has recently declared: « the CNIL (French national data protection commission) is an enemy of the nation ». He also qualified the privacy’s protectors of « backward-lookers ».
Looking at his recent nomination, this posture may be surprising. The privacy is one of the biggest current issues, and it can not be excluded from the agenda, especially the one of an elected official.
But if we look more closely, his comments seem explicable, but not understandable at the same time.
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