Council of Ministers and the EU DPAs puts brake on the EU Commission’s proposal for a new Data Protection Regulation. The stumbling block is the common rules for how personal data should be handled and the ability for companies to only have to turn to the data protection authority in the EU country.
class=”paragraphIntro”> European Commission and with Vice-President Viviane Reding at the head has pushed hard for a new data protection regulation should be in place before the European elections in May. As recently as October, she was optimistic about the opportunities for its proposal by both parliament and the Cabinet of Ministers on time. When she then visited Stockholm told her, among other things, how the whistle-blower Edward Snowden’s revelations given her great impetus.
class=”paragraphIntro”> – Snowden has helped us to see that, yes it is important, and yes, we must do something, ‘she said then.
After last week meeting between Union justice ministers were voices coming from Viviane Reding, however, considerably more negative.
class=”paragraphIntro”> – instead to move forward, we have moved us back. We open issues that we agreed in October, she said then.
class=”paragraphIntro”> is feared that if regulation fails to take a decision before a new Parliament in Europe selected so it will be significantly delayed.
class=”paragraphIntro”> to Viviane Reding not managed to convince all the European countries’ ministers and data protection authorities on the arrangements that will be enough for a company to have contact with the authorities of a country is clear. Ireland is perhaps the country that is most favorable to the proposal. To the IDG News says the country’s Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes to the proposal of a “one stop shop” is a logical idea, but he has mixed feelings about the proposal.
class=”paragraphIntro”> – I see not at it with much enthusiasm because I have to manage all IT companies in Ireland, he says.
class=”paragraphIntro”> Ireland is, at because of tax reasons , popular among American IT giants like Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook. With Reding’s proposal, the country would have to handle the companies’ data protection issues for all of Europe.
class=”paragraphIntro”> Data Inspectorate General of Kristina Svahn Starrsjö is also critical of the proposal that there should be enough business to have contact with the DPA in just one country.
class=”paragraphIntro”> – We have have been critical because we do not understand how it will work in practice and how to cooperate. We have repeatedly asked for specific examples of how it should work with it has been presented a few examples, she says to Computer Sweden.
class=”paragraphIntro”> Kristina Svahn Starrsjö is skeptical about how it would work in relationship with other agencies and the number of cases each year that would be handled jointly.
class=”paragraphIntro”> – It’s tricky for example, Ireland’s data protection authority would be able to make decisions that are binding on us. In Sweden, it is doubtful how it relates to such Government.
class=”paragraphIntro”> Kristina Svahn Starrsjö think many data protection authorities in Europe are critical of the proposal just because it gives the individual agency less power.
class=”paragraphIntro”> – You become bound by what another DPA which is at the same hierarchical level decides.
Caroline Olstedt Carlstrom is data protection manager on payment services provider Klarna and chairman of the Forum for data protection. She thinks it is a pity if the EU fails to replace the Data Protection Directive from 1995.
class=”paragraphIntro”> – When the directive was negotiated and written in the early 90′s there were not, for example cloud services even in the material world. This means that texts in different countries based on the old directive is very, very blunt. If you want the confidence of businesses that could create tremendous value, new services and jobs, then you have to also create a regulatory framework that is more predictable and allow this type of services, says Caroline Olstedt Carlstrom.
She compares today’s situation of having to push a square block through a triangular hole.
class=”paragraphIntro”> – It fits not really needed and very shoehorn get to put together the map with reality. Then it will be a little strange.
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