“Privacy and protection are fundamental in the digital world. You cannot have one without the other”, said European Commission Vice-President with responsibility for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip in a note published on the Commission web site on Tuesday 5 September.
He said that the general regulation on data protection, due to come into force on 25 May 2018 (see EUROPE 11795), and the regulation on privacy and electronic communications, presented by the Commission in January...