Key developments
- 🇪🇺 The European Commission publishes A comprehensive approach on personal data protection in the European Union, COM(2010) 609 final, 4.11.2010.
- ⚖️ The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rules in European Commission v. Germany (C‑518/07), on 9 March 2010, in European Commission v The Bavarian Lager Co. Ltd. (C-28/08 P) on 29 June 2010, and in Volker und Markus Schecke (C‑92/09 and C‑93/09), on 9 November 2010.
- 🇪🇺 The European Parliament refuses to consent to a proposed Council decision for an EU-US Agreement on the transfer of financial data for the purposes of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, negotiated in the context of the ‘SWIFT scandal’.
Also this year
- ⚖️ The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decides in Uzun v Germany, on 2 September 2010, and in Kennedy v the UK, on 18 May 2010.
- At the Council of Europe:
- On 10 March 2010 the Committee of Ministers adopts a decision encouraging the start of work on the modernisation of Convention 108;
- The protection of individuals with regard to automatic processing of personal data in the context of profiling (Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)13) is adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 23 November 2010.
- The Article 29 Working Party publishes its 13th annual report, covering 2009.
- The European Privacy and Data Protection Commissioners’ ‘Spring’ Conference convenes in Prague on 29 and 30 April 2010, and adopts a Resolution on the envisaged EU-U.S. agreement on data protection standards in the area of police and judicial co-operation in criminal matters, a Resolution on the set up of joint actions of awareness and education of youngsters at a European and international level, a Resolution on the use of body scanners for airport security purposes, and a Resolution on future development of data protection and privacy.
Literature
- Andoulsi, Isabelle (2010), ‘Personal Data Protection and the First Implementation Semester of the Lisbon Treaty: Achievements and Prospects’, New Journal of European Criminal Law 1(3 ), 362-384.
- Blume, Peter (2010), ‘Data protection and privacy–basic concepts in a changing world‘, Scandinavian Studies in Law. ICT Legal Issues, 56, 151-164.
- Gassman, H. P. (2010), ‘30 Years After: The Impact of the OECD Privacy Guidelines‘, Joint Roundtable of the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP), and its Working Party on Information Security and Privacy (WPISP), Paris, 10 March 2010.
- Gutwirth, Serge, Yves Poullet, Paul De Hert (eds.), Data Protection in a Profiled World, Springer.
- Korff, Douwe and Brown, Ian (2010), New Challenges to Data Protection – Final Report, European Commission DG Justice, Freedom and Security Report.
- Meier, Philippe (2010), Protection des données: Fondements, principes généraux et droit privé, Stämpfli.
- Nissenbaum, Helen (2010), Privacy in context: Technology, policy, and the integrity of social life, Stanford University Press. For commentary, see: Michael D. Birnhack (2011), ‘A Quest for a Theory of Privacy: Context and Control‘, Jurimetrics 51(4), 447-480.
- Öman, Sören (2010), ‘Trends in data protection law‘, Scandinavian Studies in Law 56, 210-205.
- Pedraz Penalva, Ernesto (ed.) (2010), Protección de datos y proceso penal, La Ley.
- Richards, Neil M., and Daniel J. Solove (2010), ‘Prosser’s privacy law: A mixed legacy‘, California Law Reiew. 98(6), 1887-1924.
- Solove, Daniel J. (2010), Understanding privacy, Harvard University Press.
- Van Laer, Arthe (2010), ‘Developing an EC Computer Policy, 1965–1974‘, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 32(1), 16-17.
- Wacks, Raymond (2010), Privacy: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press.
Music
- 🎵 MIA ‘The message’ (from – /\/\ /\ Y /\, XL Recordings, 2010).
In the media
- O’ Brien, Kevin, ‘Europe Pushes Google to Turn Over Wi-Fi Data‘, The New York Times, 27 June 2010.
Films
- 🎬 Erasing David, by David Bon and Melinda McDougall (2010).
In memoriam
- Andreas Pfitzmann (1958 – 23 September 2010). Read Hannes Federrath, Marit Hansen & Michael Waidner ‘Andreas Pfitzmann 1958-2010: Pioneer of Technical Privacy Protection in the Information Society‘. Watch this interview.
Gloria González Fuster 