Directive 95/46/EC: Protection of Personal Data

Posted: 28th March 2008

Directive 95/46/EC is the EU directive on protection of personal data. It provides a regulatory framework to balance high level of protection for privacy of individuals and free movement of personal data within the EU. The Directive prescribes strict limits on capture and use of personal data and demands that each Member State set up an independent national body responsible for the protection of these data.

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Regulations, market pressures and increasing stakeholder demands has placed governance, risk and compliance, and fraud at the forefront of sustained business growth and development.

So how do you ensure that the data subject has been informed about processing his personal data? How do you ensure that the purpose of processing, the recipients of the data and all other information required to ensure the processing is fair has actually been given? And what about checks needed to authorise data processing? Did you know about the right to demand the rectification, deletion or blocking of data that is incomplete, inaccurate or isn't being processed iaw data protection rules?

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