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Data Protection Case Laws   https://rm.coe.int/guide-data-protection-eng-1-2789-7576-0899-v-1/1680a20af0 This Guide is part of the series of Case-Law Guides published by the European Court of Human Rights (hereafter “the Court”, “the European Court” or “the Strasbourg Court”) to inform legal practitioners about the fundamental judgments and decisions delivered by the Strasbourg Court. This particular Guide analyses and sums up the case-law on data protection under the European Convention on Human Rights (hereafter “the Convention” or “the European Convention”). Readers will find herein the key principles in this area and the relevant precedents. The case-law cited has been selected among the leading, major, and/or recent judgments and decisions. The Court’s judgments and decisions serve not only to decide those cases brought before the Court but, more generally, to elucidate, safeguard and develop the rules instituted by the Convention, thereby contributing to the observance by th...

Data localisation norms and privacy protection - PwC India   Privacy is now recognised as a fundamental right in India. On 24 August 2017, a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court ruled that the right to privacy is a fundamental right for Indian citizens under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution. 1   The need to categorise privacy as a fundamental right in India has increased as technological innovations have become more common, and organisations regularly come up with new modes of collecting, processing and dealing with personal information of individuals. The rapid digitisation of India’s economic infrastructure has led organisations and authorities to believe that data plays a critical role in the advancement of the economy. Even advanced economies such as the European Union and the United States of America have recognised data as the basis of economic advancement and have implemented new Legislation to protect and conserve sensitive data. Current regime and changi...

  The Right to Process Data for Machine Learning Purposes in the EU Mauritz Kop April 03, 2021 COMMENTARY View PDF Mauritz Kop  is Stanford Law School TTLF Fellow at Stanford University and is Managing Partner at AIRecht, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Correspondence: advies@airecht.nl Recommended Citation Mauritz Kop, Commentary, The Right to Process Data for Machine Learning Purposes in the EU,  https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/d... Abstract Europe is now at a crucial juncture in deciding how to deploy data driven technologies in ways that encourage democracy, prosperity and the well-being of European citizens. Normative preferences about how related technology laws ought to be designed should define sustainable exponential innovation policy. These preferences are dynamic and contextual. The upcoming European Data Governance Act provides a major window of opportunity to change the story. In this respect, it is key that the European Commission takes firm action, removes overbea...

 Data Mapping – Why It Is Important and How to Do It Revision Date: September 20, 2018 A Forrester report1 of 150 data security professionals published in January 2017: 76% believe their organization has a “mature or very mature” data security strategy, yet “most companies struggle to encrypt data, audit it for abuse, enforce a strict least privilege model, classify it, and even understand where it’s located” be it on premises, at third parties or in the cloud. If you don’t know where your data is, how can you protect it? https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/document/C512DAQGmBQ_eIBmGYg/profile-treasury-document-pdf-analyzed/0/1583598622855?e=1609934400&v=beta&t=GiNhTA_-8mjkuIrbry4vXjxFtYEvY8BWGm2tfFjztsw

How to Address Privacy Questions Raised by the Expansion of Augmented Reality in Public Spaces Ellysse Dick   December 14, 2020   https://itif.org/publications/2020/12/14/how-address-privacy-questions-raised-expansion-augmented-reality-public?mc_cid=04aeef95ce&mc_eid=af13c06a16 Augmented reality (AR) amplifies some of the most pressing privacy concerns for bystanders in the digital world and combines them in new ways. Policymakers should develop safeguards that allow for shifting perceptions of privacy in public space. KEY TAKEAWAYS The individual privacy concerns from AR are not necessarily unique—smartphones, body cameras, autonomous vehicles, and others raise similar concerns. But AR amplifies and combines existing privacy issues for bystanders. Key policy challenges that have defined debates about privacy and technology in the past also apply to AR, including: the expectation of privacy in public space, transparency and choice, government use, child safety, and volunta...