European Data Protection: Handling Data Security Breaches

摘要

European "data protection" is a maze of rules and regulations: Currently, some 33 different European jurisdictions (including the 25 countries within the EU), from Lisbon to the Ural River, have data protection laws. To be more precise, the term "data protection"—which Europeans use much more frequently than the term "privacy"—does not only mean that the data is protected. The laws protect the personal information of those individuals to whom the personal information belong—the so-called "data subjects."