This year, the Council of Europe is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its Convention for the protection of individuals with regard to automatic processing of personal data, known as “Convention 108”.
In today’s age of of rapid technological developments, globalization and the ever-more elaborated and hard-to-detect ways of collecting personal data, the question arises whether the existing EU data protection legislation is still enough to effectively cope with the task of protecting an individual’s personal data. To this end in May 2009 the European Commission launched