Posted on January 17, 2012 by Gonzalo Gallego

Spanish Data Protection Authority Launches Public Consultation on Cloud Computing

By Pablo Rivas in our Madrid Office

Following the example of the French Data Protection Authority (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés or CNIL), the Spanish Data protection Authority (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos or AEPD) has opened a public consultation on cloud computing to learn the opinions and experiencse of service providers and users.

Interested parties have until January 27 to submit their comments. This public consultation is an good opportunity to enhance the AEPD's understanding of problems on data protection arising from cloud computing and may also help the AEPD find viable solutions and alternatives for data protection compliance within the cloud computing encironment.   

Interested parties can participate in the public consultation by fulfilling and online form (in Spanish) accessible by the AEPD's website, www.agpd.es.

We will keep you posted on the conclusions of this public consultation of the AEPD.

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Posted on October 30, 2009 by Christopher Wolf

Live Blogging from Global Privacy Events in Madrid

Starting on Tuesday, November 3d, Hogan & Hartson will be live blogging from international privacy events in Madrid.  Chris Wolf from the firm's Washington Office and Wim Nauwelaerts from the Brussels Office, both senior lawyers in the Privacy and Data Security Practice, will provide timely reports from side events leading to the 31st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners

The civil society conference The Public Voice: Global Privacy Standards in a Global World to be presented by the Electronic Privacy Information Center;  and 

The Data Protection and  Privacy Workshop to be presented by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.    

Then, starting on Wednesday, November 4th, we will bring you reports from the "main event", which the host, the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD), has described as "the largest forum dedicated to privacy in the world, which every year brings together the highest authorities and institutions guaranteeing data protection and privacy, as well as experts in the field from every continent. "

Watch for our daily reports.

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