Ms. Reding said that under her proposal for uniform, E.U.-wide privacy rules, the data protection officials in individual countries would have to be granted greater power to enforce these laws and to impose penalties on violators.
Other risks that might come into play, for example, wider privacy and human rights concerns, such as the right to not be discriminated against, are ignored.
The data breach is the first that falls clearly under new EU-wide privacy rules which carry beefed up penalties for violations.
The culmination of this is the new EU-wide privacy regulation, the GDPR, which will come into effect on May 25 , 2018 and was a hot topic during the recent Zuckerberg testimony.
In order to implement this we would need wider privacy and data protection rights that can be also applied at a higher and chronologically antecedent level: our neural activity.
This year it expanded from its core search product to launch a tracker blocker to address wider privacy concerns consumers have by helping web users keep more of their online activity away from companies trying to spy on them for profit.
But Facebook is sidestepping that reality by being opaque about its processes and failing to acknowledge there are wider privacy implications to its data-grabbing ways (Packet Storm goes into one possible unpleasant scenario of the current Facebook data-harvesting process here).
Technology is always a double edged sword, but Iota's makers aren't concerning themselves with the wider privacy implications of what they're building — beyond noting that location data they collect is encrypted with AES encryption and kept "completely confidential".
It provides the ability to set policies within the environment in order to ensure the system's wide security, privacy and compliance.
Apart from the intermediaries, efforts to develop industry-wide, enforceable privacy standards have been proceeding slowly.
The measures, as well as the creation of an E.U.-wide data privacy regulator, were originally proposed last year by Viviane Reding, the European justice commissioner.
