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Strasbourg 25 January 2022 Diminuer la taille du texte .... Latest news about Council of Europe work in field of data protection

May 4, 2021 Union Ministry of External Affairs has effected changes in the validity of rent agreement accepted as a proof of address. LDR can be generated by uploading the information of lost passport in the Tamil Nadu Police Department portal along with a photo-identity card. From now on, permanent address will not be an issue for those applying for a passport as applicants can submit their registered rent agreement as a valid proof of address where they have stayed as tenant for more than a...

Forty years ago tomorrow, on  28 January 1981, the first ever binding international treaty addressing the need to protect personal data was opened for signature in Strasbourg: the  Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, also known as “ Convention 108”. The treaty was modernized in 2018 by an Amending Protocol, not yet in force, aimed at ensuring that its data protection principles are still adapted to new techn...