The Workshop is intended as a discussion forum for European data protection authorities and aims to bring together colleagues from all EU member states to talk about the daily practice of data protection and exchange ideas. The Scientific Conference aims to bring together the worlds of scientific research and law, in order to jointly come to best practices and possible guidelines for the future.

The controversial installation of body scanners in airports to prevent terrorist attacks, which the Spanish Government considers “inevitable” has divided expert opinions into those who support security over privacy rights and vice versa.

The Schengen Information System holds a wealth of data on EU immigration status, arrest warrants, national police records and other personal details. Privacy advocates are alarmed at the number of access terminals to the database and afraid that UK citizens’ private details could be abused by information criminals.

Also, the new workshop for professionals who want to receive an accreditation as Europrise experts will be running from May 19-21, 2010. Registrations can still be made at www.european-privacy-seal.eu.

Awards were given on January 28, 2010.

The change in the privacy policy of the social network prompted the DPA to open the investigation.

The decision was made in response to the actor’s lawyer suing Novella 2000 magazine for photographs published last august and then shown on the Corriere della Sera online magazine.

The new tool will also facilitate control on the kind of publicity that can be received by users.

What prompted the EU Commission to start an investigation was a complaint from Privacy International about illegal downloads.

A hacker attack at a payroll processing firm may have revealed the names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and bank accounts of a massive number of people working at companies across the country.

Serious breaches of the Data Protection Act will be fined with serious penalties. The goal is for the fines to act as a deterrent against privacy breaches and to promote compliance with the DPA.

The Jersey DPA seeks to inform children of the consequences of posting personal information online. Statistics show that a large percentage of children age 5 – 11 do not only have unsupervised internet access but also full social network profiles. Another problem is that parents do not know how to regulate their children’s internet use.

The event is held each February with the purpose to educate younger generations on safer and more responsible uses of IT and mobile phones.

The Department of Administrative Services says this was not a data breach, not only because it did not leave the state firewall but also because it was received by officers who typically have access to that information.

The healthcare law will provide a 16-digit number to citizens and healthcare professionals to facilitate patient data management and transfer.

The plan will encourage companies to integrate privacy protection into new technologies from an early stage.

German supermarket are trying to ease standing in line time by allowing customers to use their fingers to pay for groceries as opposed to credit cards or cash

The initiative launched on the European Privacy Day aims to raise awareness of the importance of privacy among young students.

The Plan will inspect Banks, Electronic Healthcare Databases and Telemarketing Companies

The FBI believes such measure will help fight child pornography and other severe crimes.

While until now the company was making users’ IP addresses anonymous so that they could not be identified after six months, now under pressure from the Article 29 Group it will completely eliminate them. Microsoft says it is the right decision and calls on competitors to do the same.

The Chief State Solicitor’s Office says cloud computing services do not satisfy government requirements in the area of data protection and privacy.

The study made among top 100 employers in the UK, US, Germany and France shows most employers research candidates online and their findings can be as important as the candidates’ CV or interview. They admit that applicants have been rejected based on their online behaviour.