Press Release: EDPS statement and activities on the occasion of Data Protection Day (28 January 2010)

The Member States of the Council of Europe and the European institutions will celebrate the European Data Protection Day for the fourth time on 28 January 2010. This date marks the anniversary of the adoption of the Council of Europe's Convention on the protection of personal data (Convention 108), the first legally binding international instrument in the field of data protection.

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European Commission: Speech: SPEECH/10/14: Privacy: the challenges ahead for the European Union http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/16&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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