Information privacy

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.

LogSentinel's solution will supercharge the eGovernment information security in Bulgaria by providing a secure audit trail to help protect the personal data of all Bulgarian citizens.

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.

Facebook took out full-page ads in European newspapers April 16 to trumpet tough new EU legislation that promises "more data protection for you," as the company seeks to win back trust following a damaging privacy scandal.

Facebook said on Jan. 29 that it was publishing its privacy principles for the first time and rolling out educational videos to help users control who has access to their information, as it prepares for the start of a tough new European Union (EU) data protection law.

At a conference organized on the occasion of International Data Protection Day, the commissioner for information of public importance and personal data protection warned against the continuation of the long-standing practice of the state activities being largely, almost exclusively, reduced to the activities of the commissioner.

A group of lawyers are pressuring EU legislators to propose rules that could force internet platforms to hand over data that belongs to another person who had died or is being cared for.

The Atheists' Union of Greece has lodged a complaint with the country's privacy watchdog claiming that the Education Ministry's demand that religious identity be listed in official documents is in breach of personal data protection laws.

Is the Athens Transport Organization (OASA) planning to give passengers a pension? If not, why does it want to know their AMKA social security numbers? And that's not all.