The newest issue of GDPR Today is out!

The newest issue of GDPR Today is out!

Today, June 11th 2019, the new issue of GDPR Today has been released including many articles and statistics about the compliance of GDPR!

Read first the latest news at a Member-State/ EU level that concern the GDPR provisions’ implementation, one year after its enforcement!

Moreover, the “GDPR in numbers” section provides statistical information with great interest concerning Data Protection Authorities by 14 Member States, including these of Greece and Cyprus!

At this point, we would like to whoheartedly thank the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data of Cyprus and the Hellenic Data Protection Authority for their in full and excellent cooperation and for sharing the necessary statistical data, once again!

This issue has been edited by the organisation European Digital Rights.

Homo Digitalis participated in the issue together with the following organisations:


FRA's new Annual Report on Human Rights and its new research on Artificial Intelligence is here!

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (‘FRA’) published its new report on Human Rights on June 6.

The report summarizes and analyzes the most significant developments in the field of Human Rights in 2018 in the European Union and includes specific proposals and suggestions for action.

One of the most important pillars of the report that is of particular interest is Chapter Seven (7), which specifically is related to information society and privacy and personal data protection issues.

In this year’s edition of the report, Chapter Seven focuses on the implementation of the GDPR provisions, on developments in artificial intelligence and cyber-security, on case-law/legislation developments on the preservation of electronic communications metadata, and on cross-border access to data related to law enforcement authorities.

The report also includes chapters related to: the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and its use by the Member States, equality and non-discrimination, racism, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, Roma inclusion, asylum, borders and immigration, children’s rights, access to justice and the implementation of the UN Convention on the rights of the people with disabilities.

On June 11, FRA published its new study on Artificial Intelligence. The study focuses on the importance of data quality used by mechanical learning algorithms for automated decision making.