Gloria González Fuster

Key developments

• 🇪🇺 The European Commission publishes:
  • Communication Safeguarding Privacy in a Connected World: A European Data Protection Framework for the 21st Century, COM(2012) 9 final, 25.1.2012, together with:
    • Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation), COM(2012) 11 final, 25.1.2012.
    • Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, and the free movement of such data, COM(2012) 10 final, 25.1.2012.
  • 🇪🇺 🇺🇾 Decision of 21 August 2012 on the adequate protection of personal data by Uruguay with regard to automated processing of personal data.
  • 🇪🇺 🇳🇿 Decision of 19 December 2012 on the adequate protection of personal data by New Zealand.

Watch

• ‘Take control of your personal data‘, EU Justice and Consumers, European Commission (2012).

Also this year

• ⚖️ The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decides in European Commission v. Austria (C‑614/10), on 16 October 2012.
• ⚖️ The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decides in Von Hannover v Germany (2), on 7 February 2012.

• 🇪🇺 The European Commission organises on 19 March 2012 a Conference on ‘Privacy and Protection of Personal Data’, held simultaneously in Brussels and Washinton DC, via a video conference link. A recording is available here.
• EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Opinion on the proposed data protection reform package, FRA Opinion 2/2012, Vienna, 1 October 2012.

• The Article 29 Working Party publishes
  • its 15th annual report, covering 2011.
  • Opinion 01/2012 on the data protection reform proposals (WP 191) on 23 March 2012.
• 🇨🇴 Colombia adopts the Ley 1581 de 2012, Marco general de la protección de los datos personales en Colombia.
• 🇳🇮 Nicaragua adopts the Ley No. 787 Ley de Protección de Datos Personales.

Literature

• Blanchette, Jean-François (2012), Burdens of Proof: Cryptographic Culture and Evidence Law in the Age of Electronic Documents, The MIT Press. 
• Blume, Peter, ‘Will it be a better world? The proposed EU Data Protection Regulation‘, International Data Privacy Law, 2(3), 130–136.
• Boehm, Franziska (2012), Information sharing and data protection in the area of freedom, security and justice: towards harmonised data protection principles for information exchange at EU-level, Springer.
• Cate, Fred H. and Beth E. Cate (2012), ‘The Supreme Court and information privacy‘, International Data Privacy Law, 2(4) 255–267.
• Frohman, Larry (2012), ‘Only Sheep Let Themselves Be Counted. Privacy, Political Culture, and the 1983/87 West German Census Boycotts‘, Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 52, 335-378.
• Gilliom, John and Torin Monahan (2012), SuperVision: An Introduction to the Surveillance Society, The University of Chicago Press.
• Gutwirth, Serge, Ronald Leenes, Paul De Hert, Yves Poullet (eds.), European Data Protection: In Good Health?, Springer.
• Muñoz Soro, José Félix and A. Daniel Oliver-Lalana (2012), Derecho y cultura de protección de datos. Un estudio sobre la privacidad en Aragón, Dykinson.
• Oermann, Markus (2012), Individualdatenschutz im europäischen Datenschutzrecht: Eine theoriegeleitete Analyse, Centaurus.
• Pohle, Jörg (2012), ‘Social networks, functional differentiation of society, and data protection‘, arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.3027.
• Reding, Viviane (2012), ‘The European data protection framework for the twenty-first century’, International Data Privacy Law, 2(3), 119–129.
• Schmidt, Jan-Hinrik, and Thilo Weichert (eds.) (2012), Datenschutz: Grundlagen, Entwicklungen und Kontroversen, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.
• Von Lewinski, Kai (2012), ‘Europäisierung des Datenschutzrechts: Umsetzungsspielraum des deutschen Gesetzgebers und Entscheidungskomptenz des BVerfG‘, Datenschutz und Datensicherheit-DuD 36.8, 564-570.

Music

• 🎵 Heems ‘Computers’ (from Nehru Jackets, 2012). Listen on Bandcamp.

In the media

• ‘Europe Weighs Tough Law on Online Privacy‘, The New York Times, 23 January 2012.
• Kanter, James, ‘E.U. Presses Google to Delay Privacy Policy Changes‘, The New York Times, 3 February 2012.
• O’Brien, Kevin J., ‘Austrian Law Student Faces Down Facebook‘, The New York Times, 5 February 2012.
• Sengupta, Somini, ‘European Regulator Warns Silicon Valley About Privacy‘, The New York Times, 26 April 2012.
• Pfanner, Eric, ‘Guarding a ‘Fundamental Right’ of Privacy in Europe’, The New York Times, 20 November 2012.
• O’Brien, Kevin J., ‘Law Students in Austria Challenge Facebook Privacy Policy‘, The New York Times, 4 December 2012.
• Simons, Rogers, ‘Census in pictures: from suffragettes to arms protesters‘, 11 December 2012.

In memoriam

• Pierre Catala (3 February 2012): French law professor who after pioneering work on automated legal information services was notably the co-rapporteur of the very influential 1975 Tricot report.
• Ruth M. Davis (28 March 2012): US computer scientist and civil servant who held important management positions in the 1970s. Her pioneering work on medical technology developed in parallel with a concern with privacy and data encryption.

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