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News & Events News & Events Council of Europe Office in Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine 6 April 2021 Diminuer la taille du texte Augmenter la taille du texte Imprimer la page Imprimer en PDF Ukrainian lawyers now have an opportunity to read the Handbook on European data protection law edition 2018 in Ukrainian. The Handbook has been prepared by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), with the Council of Europe (together with ...

Tunisia’s protests and the slippery slope to censorship and repression 4 February 2021 | 4:32 am This year did not start on a good note for Tunisia. On the tenth anniversary of Tunisia’s revolution, January 14, hundreds of young Tunisians in different parts of the country, particularly marginalized and impoverished areas, took to the streets in protest against poverty and social and economic inequality, as well as police brutality. The government responded to Tunisia’s protests with an iron fist, a move we strongly condemn. Tunisian police used lethal force against protester...

February 1, 2021 For the third consecutive year, following the publication of Gibson Dunn’s ninth annual U.S. Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Outlook and Review on Data Privacy Day, we offer this separate International Outlook and Review. Like many recent years, 2020 saw significant developments in the evolution of the data protection and cybersecurity landscape in the European Union (“ EU”): CJEU” or “ Court”) struck down as legally invalid the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, on which some companies relied to transfer personal data from the EU to the U.S.  While companies are turning to ...

Facial recognition: strict regulation is needed to prevent human rights violations The Council of Europe has called for strict rules to avoid the significant risks to privacy and data protection posed by the increasing use of facial recognition technologies. Furthermore, certain applications of facial recognition should be banned altogether to avoid discrimination. In a new set of guidelines addressed to governments, legislators and businesses, the 47-state human rights organisation proposes that the use of facial recognition for the sole purpose of determining a person’s skin colour, reli...

Edwin Weijdema, Global Technologist, Product Strategy at VeeamJanuary 28, 2021 Disinformation is undermining the limitless potential of technology to be a positive force for industries, businesses and communities. In the current global landscape, barely a conversation goes by without mention of “ fake news” and its ability to mislead critical discourse regarding events such as elections and current affairs around the world. Combined with the fact that the definition of privacy is constantly being redefined in the age of ‘surveillance capitalism’, this means it’s a not-so-metaphorica...