In an op-ed published in Euractiv, European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiórowski said privacy and data protection are among human rights “too often suspended at the borders of the European Union.” He said “they are rights, which marginalised individuals, stateless families, and migrant communities too often see discarded — a fleeting promise of fundamental protection to which they have not become privy, even though the Charter of Fundamental Rights is not limited only to those holding EU citizenship.”
EDPS: Privacy, data protection ‘too often suspended’ at EU borders
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