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GDPR Report 2024 - Cover
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Data protection
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
11
June
2024

GDPR in practice – Experiences of data protection authorities

Data protection rules protect privacy and prevent personal information from misuse. When the general data protection regulation (GDPR) came into force in 2018, it strengthened the role of data protection authorities. These supervisory bodies are the key enforcers of the fundamental right of protection of personal data. This report analyses the challenges they face in the GDPR implementation. The findings complement the European Commission's forthcoming evaluation of the GDPR.
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Data protection
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
24
May
2023

Surveillance by intelligence services: Fundamental rights safeguards and remedies in the EU - 2023 update

This report provides a partial update on the findings of the 2017 European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) report Surveillance by intelligence services: Fundamental rights safeguards and remedies in the EU. It was prepared at the request of the European Parliament, which asked FRA to update its 2017 findings to support the work of its committee of inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware (PEGA).
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Data protection
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
18
June
2020

Your rights matter: Data protection and privacy - Fundamental Rights Survey

This document presents data from the FRA Fundamental Rights Survey. It includes data on opinions and experiences of people in the European Union (EU) linked to data protection and technology.
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Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Data protection
Children, youth and older people
Roma
Data protection, privacy and new technologies

Video blog Michael O'Flaherty: New COVID-19 bulletin

In this vlog Michael O'Flaherty outlines fundamental rights considerations when developing technological responses to public health, as he introduces the focus of FRA's next COVID-19 bulletin.
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Asilo, migrazione e frontiere
Frontiere e sistemi di informazione
Protezione dei dati
16
January
2020

Il diritto di essere informati ― Guida per le autorità che raccolgono impronte digitali per Eurodac

Questa breve guida intende supportare gli operatori e le autorità nel fornire informazioni comprensibili e accessibili ai richiedenti asilo e ai migranti rispetto al trattamento delle impronte digitali in Eurodac.
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Data protection
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Support for human rights systems and defenders
Civil society
12
June
2019

The General Data Protection Regulation – one year on

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has applied across the European Union (EU) since 25 May 2018. One year on, this paper looks at how the new regulation has affected the daily work of civil society organisations (CSOs).
Handbook / Guide / Manual
Profilazione illecita
Asilo, migrazione e frontiere
Protezione dei dati, vita privata e nuove tecnologie
Protezione dei dati
Uguaglianza, non discriminazione e razzismo
Origine razziale e etnica
Giustizia, diritti delle vittime e cooperazione giudiziaria
Sicurezza
5
December
2018
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11 March 2021

Evitare la profilazione illecita oggi e in futuro: una guida

La presente guida spiega che cos’è la profilazione, illustra i quadri giuridici che la disciplinano ed espone i motivi per cui l’applicazione della profilazione entro i limiti stabiliti dalla legge è necessaria per rispettare i diritti fondamentali ed essenziale per un’efficace attività di polizia e gestione delle frontiere. La guida fornisce inoltre indicazioni pratiche su come evitare la profilazione illecita nelle operazioni di polizia e di gestione delle frontiere.
Handbook / Guide / Manual
Protezione dei dati, vita privata e nuove tecnologie
Protezione dei dati
25
May
2018

Manuale sul diritto europeo in materia di protezione dei dati, edizione 2018

Il rapido sviluppo delle tecnologie informatiche ha esacerbato la necessità di una rigorosa protezione dei dati personali, il diritto alla quale è tutelato sia dall’Unione europea (UE), sia dal Consiglio d’Europa (CdE). Salvaguardare questo importante diritto comporta nuove e importanti sfide, poiché i progressi tecnologici espandono le frontiere di settori come la sorveglianza, l’intercettazione delle comunicazioni e l’archiviazione dei dati.
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Sicurezza
Protezione dei dati, vita privata e nuove tecnologie
Protezione dei dati
Giustizia, diritti delle vittime e cooperazione giudiziaria
9
May
2018

Sorveglianza da parte dei servizi di intelligence: garanzie dei diritti fondamentali e mezzi di ricorso nell’Unione europea (volume II) - Sintesi

Con il terrorismo, gli attacchi informatici e sofisticate reti criminali transfrontaliere che rappresentano crescenti minacce, il lavoro dei servizi di intelligence è diventato sempre più impellente, complesso e internazionale. Tale lavoro può interferire pesantemente con i diritti fondamentali, in particolare con il diritto alla vita privata e alla protezione dei dati. Anche se i continui progressi tecnologici possono potenzialmente esacerbare la minaccia di tali ingerenze, controllo e ricorsi efficaci possono porre un freno ai rischi di abuso.
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Data protection
Data protection, privacy and new technologies

Video blog by Michael O'Flaherty: data protection

This video blog by FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty is released periodically and will address burning fundamental rights themes.
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Data protection
Security
Data protection, privacy and new technologies

Press Briefing: Mass surveillance - rights vs security?

This is the recording of the online press briefing about mass surveillance as presented by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) on 16 October 2017.
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Data protection
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
23
October
2017

Surveillance by intelligence services: fundamental rights safeguards and remedies in the EU - Volume II: field perspectives and legal update

This report is FRA’s second publication addressing a European Parliament request for in-depth research on the impact of surveillance on fundamental rights. It updates FRA’s 2015 legal analysis on the topic, and supplements that analysis with field-based insights gained from extensive interviews with diverse experts in intelligence and related fields, including its oversight.
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Data protection
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
13
July
2017

Data retention across the EU

In 2006 the EU issued its Data Retention Directive. According to the Directive, EU Member States had to store electronic telecommunications data for at least six months and at most 24 months for investigating, detecting and prosecuting serious crime. In 2016, with an EU legal framework on data retention still lacking, the CJEU further clarified what safeguards are required for data retention to be lawful.This paper looks at amendments to national data retention laws in 2016 after the Digital Rights Ireland judgment.
Report / Paper / Summary
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Data protection
Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation
Security
18
November
2015

Surveillance by intelligence services - Volume I: Member States’ legal frameworks

This report, drafted in response to the European Parliament’s call for thorough research on fundamental rights protection in the context of surveillance, maps and analyses the legal frameworks on surveillance in place in EU Member States.
Handbook / Guide / Manual
Asylum, migration and borders
Borders and information systems
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Borders and information systems
Data protection
Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation
Security
26
January
2015

Fundamental rights considerations for law enforcement when processing Passenger Name Record data

FRA was requested by the European Commission (EC) in January 2014 to provide practical guidance on the processing of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data for law enforcement purposes, in light of efforts by Member States to establish national PNR systems. As a result, in informal consultation with EC services and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and building on opinions FRA, the EDPS and the Article 29 Working Party on PNR, FRA presented twelve fundamental rights considerations to EU Member States experts at technical level.
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Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Data protection
27
January
2014

Access to data protection remedies in EU Member States – Summary

This summary presents the FRA’s main research conclusions, which are published in full in Access to data protection remedies in EU Member States.
Report / Paper / Summary
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Data protection
27
January
2014

Access to data protection remedies in EU Member States

Technological advances make it ever more important to safeguard the right to personal data, which is enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Data protection violations arise principally from internet‑based activities, direct marketing and video surveillance, perpetrated by, for example, government bodies or financial and health institutions, research by the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) shows.
Opinion
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Data protection
9
October
2012

FRA opinion on proposed EU data protection reform package

Following a request by the European Parliament on 5 September 2012 for an analysis of the fundamental rights issues associated with the proposed EU data protection reform package, FRA issued its opinion on the draft legislation on 1 October 2012.
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Unlawful profiling
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Data protection
Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Racial and ethnic origin
11
October
2010

Towards More Effective Policing, Understanding and preventing discriminatory ethnic profiling: A guide

When a decision to stop an individual is motivated solely or mainly by virtue of a person's race, ethnicity or religion, this constitutes discriminatory ethnic profiling. Such practices can serve to alienate certain communities in the EU, and in turn can contribute to inefficient policing. The FRA guide aims to help the police address and avoid discriminatory ethnic profiling, and is designed to be used as a tool for more effective policing.
Report / Paper / Summary
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Data protection
Support for human rights systems and defenders
National human rights systems and bodies
7
May
2010

Data Protection in the European Union: the role of National Data Protection Authorities (Strengthening the fundamental rights architecture in the EU II)

The EU plays a pioneering role in the protection of personal data. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU enshrines the right to data protection as an autonomous fundamental right. Despite the underlying importance and centrality of the right to data protection in the EU, many deficiencies are present in the data protection system. This study on data protection identifies deficiencies in the EU Member States.