Data protection

Greek Parliament passed a bill on Monday that will incorporate a European Union data protection regulation into Greek law, with an overwhelming majority.
The legislation was approved by New Democracy, main opposition SYRIZA, the center-left Movement for Change and leftist MeRA25. Communist party KKE and nationalist Greek Solution voted against.  

Data protection committees in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and several other countries said that Libra's cryptocurrency, proposed by Facebook (Facebook Inc.), could pose a risk to the privacy of its users.

The European Commission publishes new guidelines on the interaction of the free movement of non-personal data with EU data protection standards.

The Prosecutor General's Office posted on Saturday evening a message on its Facebook page explaining why personal data were removed from two press releases of the Judiciary Crime Investigation Section regarding the case in which former head of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) Laura Codruta Kovesi was prosecuted.

Almost 60,000 personal data breaches have been reported to Europe's regulators since the EU adopted a landmark privacy law, according to figures published on Tuesday that campaigners said should spur people to think twice about what they share online.

Bulgaria's Head of State exercised his power and returned a provision of the Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Personal Data Protection Act for a new debate in Parliament with objections to the criteria set forth in § 26 for the processing of personal data for journalistic purposes and for the purposes of the academic or literary expression, the press office of the Head of State said on

Amendments to Bulgaria's Data Protection Law, passed on Thursday without debate in parliament, limit freedom of expression and may result in fresh pressures on the media, the Association of Bulgarian Journalists, AEJ-Bulgaria, warned on 24 January.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos was presented on Thursday with the annual report of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA).

The report for 2017 was the last written up under European Union legislation on data protection introduced in 1995. New Europe-wide legislation known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in Greece in May this year.

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 enters into force today - behind this name lies one of the biggest changes in legal regulations ever made in the world.

It introduces a new level of protection for individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of information.

New laws on data protection of online consumers enter into force on May 25th in the European Union, Brussels calls them the new global standard after the scandal with stolen data from Facebook.