On Thursday 4 May, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), Giovanni Buttarelli, from Italy, presented his mid-term report to the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee. He explained to MEPs that EDPS had been used on far more occasions in 2016 than in other previous years.
He explained that the increased number of cases (173 in 2016, according to the report -20% more than in 2015) was not due to worsening problems but because of an increased awareness among people...