Will Safe Harbor survive post Snowden?

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,…

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Les Zones de commentaires libres ou zones bloc-notes

Les zones de commentaires libres appelés aussi zones  blocs-notes sont des champs que les employés d’une entreprise renseignent librement pour : saisir des informations sur le suivi du dossier d’un client (difficultés du dossier, état d’avancement, pièces manquantes, …),  inscrire des commentaires, rédiger des appréciations et des informations recueillies lors d’un évènement afin de personnaliser la relation commerciale. Par exemple, certains services de ressources humaines renseignent des zones de commentaires libres pour inscrire leurs appréciations sur un candidat à un poste ; un téléconseiller utilise les zones de commentaires libres pour  inscrire des informations qu’il a recueillies lors d’un prospect par exemple.
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Data Protection Officers: towards a better data protection?

The Directive 95/46/EC gave European Union member states the possibility to introduce into their national law the appointment of a Data Protection Officer (DPO), but it is still optional. Today, the European Commission’s draft reforming the EU framework on Data Protection Regulation sets forward in art. 35 that the DPO role will be mandatory for personal data processing that affects large amounts of individuals (≥ 5000 data subjects in 12 months), location data or children´s data in large scale filing systems.

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Data Protection Law in Romania

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…)

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The controversy surrounding the Google Glass

Like most of you know, Google’s research andGaby
development Project Glass has the mission of creating the Google Glass. The aim is to build a glasses-shaped mini-computer that is to be worn like spectacles.
The device is connected and has various features, such as a camera and voice recognition capacities, that allow the device to be commanded by voice.  The progress in hardware technology brought by Google is unquestionable. However, many are raising concerns about the breach of privacy that this device could enable.
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