Δημοσιεύθηκε στο ethemis.gr, 19.3.2021 Καθώς κατά τα μέσα Φεβρουαρίου παραιτήθηκα από τη θέση αναπληρωματικού μέλους της Αρχής Προστασίας Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Χαρακτήρα που κατείχα από τον Σεπτέμβριο του 2016, και επειδή το προηγούμενο διάστημα ήταν κρίσιμο για το Δίκαιο Προστασίας Δεδομένων επειδή συνέπεσε, ήδη από τον Μάιο του 2018, με την εφαρμογή του Γενικού Κανονισμού για…
Δημοσιεύθηκε στο Linkedin, 9.2.2020 *** This is part of the GDPR ethics series; A broad mission statement may be found in its opening text. *** Few legal instruments have done more for European integration than the GDPR: Within only a few years since its release there is practically nobody in Europe that has not heard of it or is…
Δελτίο Τύπου, Αρχής Προστασίας Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Χαρακτήρα, 29.01.2020 Με ιδιαίτερη επιτυχία και μεγάλη συμμετοχή πραγματοποιήθηκε την Τρίτη 28 Ιανουαρίου, στο Αμφιθέατρο του Εθνικού Ιδρύματος Ερευνών, η επιστημονική ημερίδα της Αρχής Προστασίας Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Χαρακτήρα με θέμα «To δικαίωμα στην προστασία των προσωπικών δεδομένων μετά την εφαρμογή του Κανονισμού (ΕΕ) 2016/679 και την ενσωμάτωση της Οδηγίας…
Published on LinkedIn, 6 May 2019. *** This is part of the GDPR ethics series; A broad mission statement may be found in its opening text. *** Article 8 of the GDPR puts forward the conditions under which children can lawfully consent to the processing of their data by third parties over the internet. In this way it…
Published on LinkedIn, 15 March 2019. *** This is part of the GDPR ethics series; A broad mission statement may be found in its opening text. *** As seen in the analysis of Article 6 of the GDPR, consent is an important, and by far the preferable, legal mechanism for the lawful processing of personal data. Its importance is…
Published on LinkedIn, 7 February 2019. *** This is part of the GDPR ethics series; A broad mission statement may be found in its opening text. *** Same as with Article 5, an article-by-article analysis of the GDPR from an ethics point of view need not go further than the first sentence when it comes to its Article…
An article by article analysis of the GDPR from an ethics perspective need not go any further than the first line when it comes to its Article 5: “Personal data shall be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject (‘lawfulness, fairness and transparency’)”. What is “lawful processing” one…
Article 4 of the GDPR contains its definitions. This is in line both with its predecessor, the EU 1995 Data Protection Directive, and general EU law-making: Customarily, in all EU technical legislation a set of definitions comes before the actual legal provisions. This is basic law-writing technique also met in complex contracts: Definitions come first so…
Article 3 of the GDPR sets its geographical scope. The general rule is that it applies whenever a controller or a processor is established in the EU regardless where the processing takes place. That is something expected. However, the GDPR also applies to people who are in the EU whenever they surf the web (“offered…
LinkedIn article, published on 21 Oct 2018 The household exemption dominates Article 2 of the GDPR, the automated/non-automated distinction being by now outdated: The GDPR does not apply whenever processing of personal data is done “by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity”. In the age of digital…