Wim Nauwelaerts writes: Who is in “control” of personal data and who merely processes personal data on behalf of a data “controller”? These are essential questions for purposes of compliance with EU data protection requirements, yet answering them can be quite problematic in practice. The EU Data Protection Directive defines the controller as the person…
Category: Non-U.S.
Privacy law: is Max Mosley right?
Allen Green writes: Both the Press and the State are capable of doing great good; the effective functioning of both is fundamental in a modern democratic society. However, the Press and the State are both also capable of intruding needlessly into the lives, communications, and personal space of private individuals. But to take privacy seriously…
MEPs ask for more time before full vote on PNR data transfer
Members of the European Parliament (MEP) have been asked not to torpedo a long-standing agreement on sending air passengers’ personal details to US authorities to leave time for a new deal to be negotiated. Passenger name records (PNR) are sets of 19 pieces of information that US authorities demand on every air traveller entering that…
Commentary: Europe must not ban the burqa
Thomas Hammarberg, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, has an opinion piece in The Guardian: Prohibition of the burqa and the niqab would not liberate oppressed women, but might instead lead to their further alienation in European societies. A general ban on such attire would be an ill-advised invasion of individual privacy. Depending…