Volume: 9 Issue: 3
(March 2012)
Keywords:
editorial
mission
interoperability
obama
gets
viviane
reding
gets
indeed
defining
moment
our
public
policies
right
terms
global
data
protection
Obama gets it. Viviane Reding gets it. This is indeed a defining moment to get our public policies right in terms of global data protection and privacy. Ignore the human and social implications of the exploitation of personal data and we will lose forever the right to privacy and possibly our freedom. Be too overprotective with one of our greatest assets of our time and we will definitely block progress and prosperity. The stakes are really that high. That was the key underlying message of the recent EU-U.S. Conference on Privacy and Protection of Personal Data held simultaneously in Brussels and Washington.