EU data protection adopts joint opinion on digital green certificate proposals Pubblicato: 20 Aprile 2021
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) adopted a joint opinion on the Proposals for a Digital Green Certificate. The Digital Green Certificate aims to facilitate the exercise of the right to free movement within the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic by establishing a common framework for the issuance, verification and acceptance of interoperable COVID-19 vaccination, testing and recovery certificates. With this Joint Opinion, the EDPB and the EDPS invite the co-legislators to ensure that the Digital Green Certificate is fully in line with EU personal data protection legislation. The data protection commissioners from all EU and European Economic Area countries highlight the need to mitigate the risks to fundamental rights of EU citizens and residents that may result from issuing the Digital Green Certificate
GDPR, PIPL and CCPA
PIPL”), the draft of a set of rules aimed at regulating privacy law.
PIPL is meant to complete China’s regulatory framework on privacy, which was launched with the 2016 Cybersecurity Law. China, like other major world powers, is fully aware that “information is power” and to be up to date as situations develop, means for them to be able not only to react quickly but also to control the nature of the information.
PIPL looks like a “little sister” to EU Regulation 2016/679 (“
GDPR”). Is it perhaps that China ran for cover after the Schrems II ruling? The EU court’s decision, in fact, is not only of concern for its immediate effects on data flows to the United States, but also for its repercussions in other third countries too, such as China. In order to assess whether China is a country with sufficient guarantees of adequacy (i.e. with an essentially equivalent level of protection of personal data to that guaranteed within the EU), market playe
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As independent body rules international transfers of data need to comply with GDPR
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has ruled that the exchange of personal information between public authorities under existing international agreements need to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This means that all transfers of personal data to third countries, concluded before 24 May 2016, or organisations, carried out before 6 May 2016, and which complied with the applicable EU law at the time, “shall remain in force until amended, replaced or revoked”, said Andrea Jelinek, chair of the EDPB.
“The EDPB deems that, in order to ensure that the level of protection of natural persons guaranteed by the GDPR and the Law Enforcement Directive (LED) is not undermined when personal data is transferred outside the Union, consideration should be given to the aim of bringing these agreements in line with the GDPR and LED requirements for data transfers where this is not
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