The day before the Day of Europe, May 9th 2007, Brussels detailed the actions which it intends to carry out to improve the level of protection of the private life by technologies. The European Commission indicated to want to count the present needs, to define the design features of the adapted tools and to continue the financing of research.
At the 6th program for the research and the technological development (PRDT 2002-2006), more than 18 million euros were devoted to these technologies (encoding, anonymity, anti-cookies,' Platform for Privacy Preferences' or P3P, etc.). This effort will be intensified “in the nearest future”, indicated Franco Frattini, vice-president of the European Commission in load of the questions of freedom, safety and justice. It is also necessary, added Brussels, to sensitize the consumers by facilitating “their choice lit by labels”. Lastly, continued the European executive, the improvement of the data protection in personal matter passes by the standardization and the coordination of the national technical regulations.
“A recourse more generalized to technologies reinforcing protection of the private life will contribute to the compliance with the rules of data protection (and will come to complete) the legal framework and the existing mechanisms of repression”, underlined Brussels before adding that the intervention of various actors in the data processing could block the application of this legal framework.
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