On Monday 27 January, the day before Data Protection Day, Věra Jourová, the Vice-President of the European Commission, and Didier Reynders, the European Commissioner for Justice, stressed in a joint statement that in Europe “strong data protection rules are not a luxury, but a necessity”.
Twenty months after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force, the European Commission welcomes the fact that, with the development of 5G and artificial intelligence, the...