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EU-EDPS: EDPS calls for data protection safeguards before public sector information containing personal data can be re-used

01 April 2012

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Peter Hustinx, EDPS, says: "The re-use of PSI containing personal data may bring significant benefits, but also entails great risks to the protection of personal data, due to the wide variety of data held by public sector bodies. The Commission proposal should therefore more clearly define in what situations and subject to what safeguards information containing personal data may be required to be made available for re-use."

See:

- Press release (pdf)
- Opinion (pdf)
- Public access to documents containing personal data after the Bavarian Lager ruling

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