he European Court of Human Rights recently ruled that Russia’s use of facial recognition against protesters was a violation of their privacy and freedom of expression rights.
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The Council of Europe has published guidelines to avoid what it terms significant risks to privacy and data protection posed by the increasing use of facial recognition technology.
The Steering Committee on Media and Information Society (CDMSI) of the Council of Europe has published draft recommendation on the human rights impacts of algorithmic systems and invites comments from the public. Draft recommendation outlines that private sector actors should actively engage in participatory processes with consumer associations and data protection authorities for the design, implementation […]
On March 28, 2019, the Council of Europe issued a new Recommendation on the protection of health-related data. The Recommendation calls on all Council of Europe member states to take steps to ensure that the principles for processing health-related data (in both the public and private sector) set out in the Appendix of the Recommendation […]
The Committee of the Council of Europe’s data protection treaty “Convention 108” has published Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection. The guidelines aim to assist policy makers, artificial intelligence (AI) developers, manufacturers and service providers in ensuring that AI applications do not undermine the right to data protection.
The Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (Convention 108) has been given an overhaul to bring it into line with the General Data Protection Regulation. While Convention 108 is not an EU document, the European Commission sees the protocol as a way of encouraging […]
Twenty-one states on October 10, 2018 signed a Council of Europe treaty aimed at strengthening the principles and rules for the protection of personal data at international level. The treaty, an Amending Protocol, updates the Council of Europe’s Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, also known as […]
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers recently adopted “Amending Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data” (ETS No. 108) after several years of negotiations. The Protocol, now open for signature, modernizes Convention 108 to deal with innovations that have occurred in the area of […]
On June 19 Mexico acceded to the Council of Europe´s Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, known as “Convention 108”, and to its Additional Protocol on transborder data flows and supervisory authorities. The convention and its Additional Protocol will enter into force in respect of Mexico on 1 […]
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