New Article by Hogan Lovells Partner Examines Proposed EU Regulation

 His article examines the European Commission’s proposed regulation on data protection, focusing on:

• the Commission’s choice of a Regulation as opposed to a Directive,

•  the new obligations that would be imposed on companies including

  • the accountability principle;

  • Privacy by Design; and

  • the obligation to conduct privacy impact assessments (PIA) for certain kinds of processing. 

The article describes:

•  the proposed changes to the rules on applicable law, which are designed to bring certain non-European websites within the scope of European privacy rules;

•  the proposed "right to be forgotten";

• and the right to data portability. 

The original French version of the article, published in Edition Multimedi@, is available here.