Following last month’s conference in Amsterdam, the Executive Committee of the International Conference of Data Protection & Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC) has released a “special edition” of its newsletter. ICDPPC Chair John Edwards, who is also the privacy commissioner of New Zealand, wrote, “The two Closed Session discussions proved to be more topical than we could have anticipated when we conceived them earlier this year, with the rapid commercialisation of genetic technologies and the ECJ decision in Schrems … illustrating how important it is for DPAs and others concerned with privacy to engage in a public conversation about intelligence and security.”
Full Story