The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) of the European Parliament has published the latest draft of the proposed Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive (the ‘Directive’) following a series of amendments by MEPs. The proposal for the Directive was first published by the European Commission 7 February 2013 as part of
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Full Speed Ahead for EU Data Protection Reform
By Cynthia O’Donoghue on
This post was written by Cynthia O’Donoghue.
Coinciding with ‘Data Protection Day’ on 27 January 2014, the European Commission released a memorandum confirming the status of the anticipated reform of the European data protection framework. The promised overhaul of the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) has certainly not been as rapid as hoped,…