Posted on 28 January 2016
On 28 January 2016, the 47 countries of the Council of Europe as well as European institutions, agencies and bodies celebrate the tenth annual European Data Protection Day. This date marks the anniversary of the Council of Europe's Convention 108 on the protection of personal information, the first legally binding international law in the field of data protection.
This year the celebration marks also the important progress which has been recently achieved at EU level on Data Protection Reform seeking to meet the challenge of establishing a modern and harmonised data protection framework across the EU.
In order to promote the increasing importance and relevance of data protection within our community, the Data Protection Officer of the European University Institute invites you to watch the video of the European Data Protection Supervisor, the independent supervisory authority at EU level, which conveys the messages of international data protection stakeholders.
After all, data protection is not just “a matter that matters” to you, to me, to our Institute. It is a fundamental right. Protecting data is about respecting rights--our own and the ones of other citizens whose data we collect and further process.
So, let’s take a moment to think, how we can protect and respect.
For more information you may visit the DPO’s page and the general Data Protection webpage of the EUI.