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Europe Data Protection Digest | Notes from the IAPP Europe Managing Director, August 29, 2014 Related reading: A view from Brussels: EDPS sends signal on data transfers 

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Though the warm weather is lingering here in central Italy, giving the illusion of a longer-lasting summer, the holidays are officially behind us. So it’s back to reality, and hopefully enough with wasting buckets of water …

Over the weekend, the European Council will meet again to discuss top EU appointments after a July meeting failed to find consensus among member states. The jobs at stake are key: By November 2014, the EU will have a new commission, a new European Council president and a new high representative.

Meanwhile, negotiations on the General Data Protection Regulation continue in the council. Earlier this week, the UK House of Lords’ European Committee submitted a report entitled EU Data Protection Law: A Right To Be Forgotten? The report acknowledges there is “little likelihood” of the Italian Presidency finishing the negotiations by the end of 2014. If an agreement is reached by the end of the Latvian Presidency in the first half of 2015, “three years will have passed since the original commission proposal,” continues the report, which states “it is no longer reasonable or even possible for the right to privacy to allow data subjects a right to remove links to data which are accurate and lawfully available.”

The committee therefore urged the UK government to “ensure that the definition of ‘data controller’ in the new regulation is amended to clarify that the term does not include ordinary users of search engines” and recommended that “the regulation no longer includes any provision on the lines of the commission's 'right to be forgotten' or the European Parliament's 'right to erasure'.”

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