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Europe Data Protection Digest | Notes from the IAPP Europe Managing Director, November 7, 2014 Related reading: A view from Brussels: EDPS sends signal on data transfers 

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In this week’s news, IAPP Board Member Eduardo Ustaran, CIPP/E, looks at the new European Commission’s key players and anticipates some of the privacy-related challenges of the post-Reding era, including the one-stop-shop mechanism and the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor agreement.

Speaking of European Commission officials and privacy-related challenges, reporting from a Brussels meeting organised by Google, The Telegraph divulged some strong comments that Paul Nemitz, director responsible for fundamental rights and union citizenship in the Directorate-General Justice of the European Commission, addressed to the search engine giant. According to The Telegraph, he accused Google of “passive-aggressiveness” towards EU data protection rules and jurisprudence.  

The meeting, which was held earlier this week, was the last of a series of encounters organised by Google following on from the so-called “right to be forgotten” judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU.

Also in this week’s news, we look at privacy developments globally, including in Canada, where Parliament is discussing amendments to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, and Germany, which is allegedly looking into a new protectionist Internet security law that would keep U.S. technology firms out of the country’s digital economy.

Meanwhile, The Guardian reports on figures released by Facebook, according to which, Germany made more requests for users’ data to the social media giant than any other country in the first half of 2014, compared to the number of its Facebook users.

According to Facebook’s Government Request Report, Germany made 2,537 requests for user data between January and June 2014; based on calculations made by The Guardian, that would amount to 115 requests for every million German Facebook users. Italy, the U.S. and France are the next three countries that again, in proportion to the size of the respective Facebook user bases, made more requests for data. Something to mull over during the weekend? 

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