EuroCloud Forum will bring to Bucharest over 900 top specialists from cloud industry. During the two days of the event, 5^th-6^th of September, they will discuss about the latest legal and technology tools, including about the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the EU-US Privacy Shield and what it all means for cloud providers. Wojcieck Wiewiorowski, Assistant European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) will discuss about data protection and privacy and their impact on economic growth and trade.

”2016 represents a key year for the growth of the European cloud industry. The legal regulations for the data protection and security in the digital space are getting set for the Big Data era and brings with it new responsibility and transparency rules for the digital solutions and cloud providers. We invite all the industry representatives to join the discussion, to discover how they can be up-to-day with the new regulations and how they can be one step ahead in the digital cloud revolution.” – declares Elena Zvarici, the president of EuroCloud Romania Association.

EuroCloud Europe: How will the new European General Data Protection Regulation help in the uptake of a Digital Single Market?

Wojciech Wiewiorowski: Privacy and data protection are clearly not barriers to economic growth and international trade, rather they enhance them. However, we know that trust is a necessary precondition for innovative products and services that rely on the processing of personal data. The EU’s aim to grow the digital single market will be successful but only if the interests of the individual are protected. GDPR is a new deal for citizens´ rights, and can galvanise responsible businesses and public authorities.

We at EDPS consider that the EU needed a new deal on data protection, a fresh chapter, focusing less on excessive formalities or prescriptive detail and investing more on dynamic safeguards to allow the individual to be in control of their data in the big data world we inhabit. Guidelines and best practices from reinforced and truly independent data protection authorities should help to deal with the rapid evolution of technology.

EuroCloud Europe: There is a 2-year implementation deadline for the GDPR. How can cloud providers get up to speed in this period with the new regulation in order to comply?

Wojciech Wiewiorowski: The GDPR brings with it a quantum shift in emphasis on who is responsible for ensuring that our right to data protection is fully respected. The GDPR includes an explicit reference to accountability as a principle and requires appropriate technical and organisational measures be put in place by organisations. In other words, organisations and not Data Protection Authorities or Data Protection Officers must demonstrate that they are compliant.

Accountability is more than simple compliance with the rules – it implies a culture change. Accountability means promoting sustainable data processing, by ensuring that the task of assessing the legality and fairness of complex processing falls primarily on organisations, with the guidance of regulators, and not on the individual.

EuroCloud Europe: Starting August 1st we have a new framework agreement regulating transatlantic data flows, the EU-US Privacy Shield. How will this agreement help?

Wojciech Wiewiorowski: Data protection authorities in Europe have welcomed the improvements brought by the Privacy Shield mechanism compared to the previous Safe Harbour. However, a number of concerns remain regarding both the commercial aspects and the access by U.S. public authorities to data transferred from the EU.

The first joint annual review will therefore be a key moment for the robustness and efficiency of the Privacy Shield mechanism to be further assessed. In particular, elements allowing a proper evaluation of the necessity and proportionality of the collection and access to data transferred by public authorities will have to be reviewed. Also, we will have to check whether the safeguards provided under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield are workable and effective in practice.

If you want to hear more from Wojciech Wiewiorowski and about the implications of the new regulation on data protection and privacy, join us at the 2016 EuroCloud Forum from 5-6 October, in Bucharest. You can register online on the event page: http://forum.eurocloud.org.

De asemenea, EuroCloud Forum este colocat cu Internet&Mobile World, cea mai mare expo-conferință de soluții IT și digital pentru mediul de business din Europa Centrală și de Est. Evenimentul va avea loc pe 5-6 octombrie, la Romexpo, reunind peste 8,000 de vizitatori business și peste 130 de expozanți de soluții tehnologice pentru afaceri. Accesul la Internet&Mobile World se poate face pe baza biletului pentru EuroCloud Forum sau prin rezervarea în prelabil pe site-ul http://www.imworld.ro.

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