Spain shares his experience in data protection with latin america and Ukraine

Spain driving, include the right to oblivion, is a pioneer in data protection. We have one of the public authorities more active in the world to promote the defence of this fundamental right. “ protecting people in a digital world, to accompany those responsible for data treatment and monitor the implementation of the regulations are the three fundamental missions of AEPD, ” explains its director, sea Spain. The knowledge and experience of our public institutions in this area is at the heart of two major european projects of international cooperation with which the FIIAPP is to facilitate, in 2023, the participation of professionals of the agency abroad.

Safeguarding data for protecting life in ukraine

Data protection, together with the digitization of the administration and security, are the three main axes of the european project EU4DigitalUA the FIIAPP implements in ukraine since 2000 with a budget of eur 8.4 million, where the AEPD leads the data protection component. “ Clearly the conflict has led us to redefine the course of the programme, but we continue to work with the country's institutions to help digital in transforming and harmonize their procedures with the Digital single market of the eu, for a possible future integration, ” explains Pablo Ródenas, coordinator of the project in FIIAPP. The director of the AEPD emphasizes that “ this law is fundamental in a country at war: in today's conflicts are no longer attacks only physical but also cybersecurity and logistical support of information and data. In Afghanistan, for example, mass medication of data from the demonstrations has helped to undermine the freedom of women after the arrival of the taliban ”.

Digital regulations and policies — in latin america and Caribbean

In march was officially presented the digital partnership between the european union and latin america and caribbean region in the european project Political Dialogues on policies and regulations that will, with direct participation of staff and AEPD aims to contribute to accelerate the digital processing of latin america and Caribbean. In particular about improving the regulatory harmonisation of digital policies and governance mechanisms for scanning in the region, with four areas of intervention: governance, e-government, cybersecurity and connectivity.

The project will be implemented in partnership by four european countries, still represented Spain by FIIAPP, which shall be responsible for the governance Area. The AEPD will collaborate with the FIIAPP in this project directly by making their experience in the area of protection of personal data, where it has developed many tools to facilitate the adaptation of their business processes with the law of personal data protection, as well as tools that allow the citizen to address the risks inherent in the new technologies.

An example of this type of instruments available to the citizen is Priority channel , they have shown interest many latin american countries, which allows you to the withdrawal of photographs, videos and audios of sexual or violent content disseminated on the Internet without the consent of the persons concerned in a matter of hours, with what you get to minimize the impact of such dissemination to the people concerned.

Cooperation to protect data in other countries

The meeting of the AEPD have participated in numerous projects of cooperation with the FIIAPP in the czech republic, Bulgaria, Israel, croatia, Albania, Kosovo and now ukraine, among others.

“ in the age of technology, private companies and governments are using personal data in an unprecedented scale. The new risks demand responses adapted, to ensure a high level of protection, offering solutions which will facilitate innovation. Thus, it is intended to work with the FIIAPP AEPD in developing a culture of protection of data through technical cooperation projects that generate close ties of cooperation between public entities of third countries and the agency, as the reference authority in the european context, she assured the director of the area of economic development and environment of FIIAPP Mories Sonsoles, Officially, “ Data protection and privacy might become en public services in place, which is perfectly compatible with economic development, to build confidence and security ”, add.

On the FIIAPP

The FIIAPP supports the building of public systems in more than 120 countries. We do so by promoting public talent and exchange of knowledge between counterpart institutions in different countries. As A public foundation, our work is part of the spanish foreign action and union. We place emphasis on value of the public to improve the lives of people and planet.

On the AEPD

The spanish data protection agency is the independent public authority responsible for ensuring the privacy and data protection of citizenship, in accordance with the exercise of their rights and to monitor the implementation of the law of data protection and guarantee of drm (LOPDGDD) and the General regulations on data protection (RGPD).

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