General Data Protection Regulation: Difference between revisions

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The [[European Commission]] plans to unify data protection within the [[European Union]] (EU) with a single law, the '''General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)'''. The current [[Data Protection Directive|EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC]] does not consider important aspects like globalization and technological developments like social networks and cloud computing sufficiently and new guidelines for data protection and privacy were required. Therefore a proposal for the regulation has been released on 25 January 2012. The adoption is aimed for in 2014 and the regulation is planned to take effect in 2016 after a transition period of 2 years. Discussions regarding specific contents are still ongoing.