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Study on Reforming the DataProtection Package
Brussels 28 June 2012
Prof. Dr. Hans Schulte-Nölke
European Legal Studies Institute Osnabrück
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Mission• Mapping new technologies and services with impact
on data protection regulation
• Internal market dimension of data protection• Rights of consumers in the area of data protection
and enforcement of data protection rules
• International data transfers, in particular cloud
computing
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Authors• Xawery Konarski (Advocate Partner, Traple Konarski Podrecki and
Partners , Cracow) – involved in many legislative works on data protection, e-commerce and telecommunication acts – lecturer at many Polish and international congresses, conferences and seminars on IT law and data
protection
– author (or co-author) of numerous publications in the field of data protection, e-commerce, intellectualproperty and telecommunications laws, including "Internet and law in practice " (2002), "Commentary on e-commerce law " (2004), "Data Protection Law. Current Problems and New Challenges " (2007)and "Direct Marketing Law " (2009)
– arbiter with the Polish Arbitration Court for domain names disputes
• Prof. Dr. Hans Schulte-Nölke (Director European Legal Studies
Institute, Osnabrück) – involved in legislative works on data protection and e-commerce – author (or co-author) of numerous publications in the field of e-commerce law including data protection – member of the European Commission Expert Group on a Common European Sales Law
• Colleagues and members of staff of both participating institutions
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New technologies and services with impact
on data protection
• Geo-location services
• Face recognition
• Profiling, in particular unifying data protection
policies for different services in order to compile
overarching profiles for each user
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Challenges for data protection legislation
• Concept of “personal data”
• Anonymisation and pseudonymisation ofdata
• Purpose limitation principle• Profiling
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Internal market dimension
• Extra-territorial application
• EU-wide level playing field• One-stop-shop for enforcement
• Accountability instead of notification
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Rights of consumers and enforcement
• Right to be forgotten and to erasure
• Right to data portability
• Rights against “profiling”, in particular theexclusion for children
• Duty of controllers not established in the Union todesignate representatives
• Joined operations of supervisory authorities
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International data transfers - cloud computing
General aim:
• EU based data controllers using cloud computing services
should not be relieved from data protection duties
• Cloud providers outside of the EU should be encouraged
to protect data adequate to the EU-level
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Tools
• Decisions on the adequacy of data
protection legal systems of non-EUcountries
• Model Contractual Clauses• Binding Corporate Rules
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Proposals for improvement
• Model Contractual Clauses: processor-to-sub-
processors model clauses
• Binding Corporate Rules: lessen the burden,
especially for the benefit of SMEs
• Accreditation systems for non-EU cloud providers whovoluntarily agree to adhere to EU data protection
requirements
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Prof. Dr. Hans Schulte-Nölke
European Legal Studies Institute Osnabrück
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