The road toward a revamped data protection mandate in the EU has been a long and arduous one, but this week news came out of Brussels that may inch the region-wide project closer to completion. DAPIX, the Data Protection and Information Exchange, held its last meeting on the General Data Protection Regulation under the current Latvian Presidency, writes Promontory’s John Bowman, CIPP/E, “in anticipation of a general approach agreement being reached on the text at the meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council on June 15-16.” In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Bowman discusses the latest news out of Brussels as well as the hard work of DAPIX members and the many other hands involved in creating what will surely be historic privacy legislation.
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