By Major Jérôme LAGASSE - CREOGN

"Published in the Official Journal of the European Union on May 4, 2016, the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and Council dated April 27, 2016 “on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data” has come into force as of May 25, 2016. A parallel can be drawn between this new Regulation and the eighth centenary of Magna Carta1,which already consecrated as an essential principle the safeguard of personal rights and freedoms. As of May 25, 2018, the Regulation will create such enforceable rights as it becomes fully opposable in its entirety before all jurisdictions of the 28 Member States of the European Union. (...)"

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