[LINK] Fwd: Clues to the content of a new Data Protection Directive

[Jan Whitaker]

[I've kept this post anonymous because it was 
sent to me personally. Excellent articles. Since 
Australia still to my knowledge hasn't satisfied 
the European Directive, this is still relevant to 
us. It's sort of disappeared in the fog of other 
issues, but it's still an issue, given the 
off-shoring of personal information. Note comment 
about IP addresses, too, a recent topic. Perhaps 
there is hope that people will start to realise 
they may be considered personal information!]

>You might be interested in the blog just 
>published on Hawktalk: 
><http://amberhawk.typepad.com/amberhawk/>http://amberhawk.typepad.com/amberhawk/. 
>
>
>Clues to the content of a new Data Protection Directive
>
>What does future European legislation in the 
>field of privacy and data protection look like?
>
>An idea can be garnered by looking at the common 
>ground between privacy advocates such as Privacy 
>International (PI), academic groupings such as 
>Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre at the Faculty of 
>Law of the University of New South Wales (CLPC), 
>and Regulators such as the Information 
>Commissioner (ICO) and the European Data 
>Protection Supervisor (EDPS). For example, there 
>is an emerging consensus that a revised Data 
>Protection Directive will apply to the use of IP 
>addresses and URLs etc and on an EU wide data breach notification rule.
>
>PI also want the “EU-US Safe Harbor Framework be 
>included in this review, as several studies have 
>documented massive compliance failures and lackluster enforcement”.
>
>If interested, follow the link and see the blog 
>– all four submissions mentioned above downloadable from the site.
>
>Happy Data Protection Day on Friday!


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