The European Commission’s draft law on personal data protection has too many loopholes, say critics, with special privileges for police a major concern. “You need some kind of flexibility because ...

The divergent application of data protection laws in the EU, one of which includes the protection of livestock, is one of the many obstacles the European Commission faces as it tries to boost ...

In the latest of a series of actions meant to bolster the E.U.-wide,1995 Data Protection Directive, the European Commission announced on Thursday that it is taking Austria to court for failing to ...

The paper looks at the issues that may hamper a more uniform application of data protection rules across the enlarged EU as well as in data exchange between the EU and the US. The paper looks at the ...

1. The ECHR provides no decision on the relationship between data protection and freedom of broadcasting. Freedom of broadcasting is given great importance by the ECHR and also in the European Court ...

Four EU member states have sent a position paper to the EU Commission asking for unnecessary bureaucratic elements in the EU’s new data privacy law to be removed. Sweden, Finland, Austria and the UK ...