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The Evolving Data Privacy Officer Role in Europe: A More Harmonized Approach Is Emerging
July 2011
Paul-Olivier
President
AFCDP |
Europe has not only recognized the need for the protection of personal information with the rise of the information economy, but its unique history during the first half of the 1900’s makes the right to personal data protection and privacy a very important individual right as well. It is indeed this blend of participating in and sustaining the economic growth in Europe in the Digital Economy, encapsulated so brilliantly some 30 years ago in the OECD Privacy Guidelines, coupled with the individual’s right to privacy, that frames the principles, the various associated EU Directives and individual country laws and regulations surrounding data protection and privacy.
Paul‐Olivier Gibert, both president of the French association for Data Protection Professionals the Association Francaise des Correspondants a La Protection des Donnees a Caractere Personnel (AFCDP) and Director of ethics and Compliance of a French insurance company (2010: 15, 7 MM€, 7000 employees) helps us understand the history in Europe that brings us to our current state and presents the portrait of the next phase, the Data Protection Officer in a harmonized EU/EEA environment. He guides us through history to where we are today and onward through the current initiatives in place to create a more harmonized, yet European version of what a Data Protection Officer’s role and deliverable is and will be.
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