What does the agreed version of the GDPR say about processing personal data for research purposes? Is the GDPR better than the Directive?

Posted on December 18, 2015 by Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon • 2 Comments

What does the agreed version of the GDPR say about processing personal data for research purposes? Is the GDPD better than the Directive? So here we are. It’s almost Christmas and after three years of intense debate the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament have announced that they have informally agreed on … Continue reading →

anonymisation / General Data Protection Regulation / Personal data

A German view of the Council’s proposed General Data Protection Regulation: let’s try one more time… by the way what do we do with Browser-Generated Information?

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon • 1 Comment

The Council of the European Union released its version of the Proposed Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation or ‘GDPR’) on 11 June 2015, as mentioned by … Continue reading →

anonymisation / big data / Data protection / Privacy / pseudonymisation

The Council of the EU and the proposed Genaral Data Protection Regulation… And what about pseudonymous data?

Posted on March 14, 2015 by Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon • 5 Comments

NGOs (non-governmental organisations) have been doing a good job recently in trying to explain where things stand in the process of re-drafting [and maybe one day adopting] the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You might remember that on 25 January 2012, the European Commission released a Proposed Revised Data Protection Legislative Framework, including the GDPR. … Continue reading →