Data Protection Reform: Strengthening individuals’ rights in the digital era

Summary:

The data protection reform addresses the challenge to develop a harmonized framework for the protection of personal data in Europe. It aspires to facilitate the completion of the internal market and establish a European stance towards data protection at global level. It also places at the center of attention the individual. Within its subject matter is to strengthen, besides data protection, other individuals’ fundamental rights, as for instance, the right to privacy.