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EU: THE FUTURE FOR DRIVING LICENCES? European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS): Merging professional drivers' driving licence with their driver card is not fully in line with data protection principles

01 February 2012

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EU: THE FUTURE FOR DRIVING LICENCES? European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS): Merging professional drivers' driving licence with their driver card is not fully in line with data protection principles (Press release, pdf) and Full-text of EDPS Opinion (pdf):

"Giovanni Buttarelli, Assistant EDPS, states: "We seriously doubt about the necessity and the proportionality of such a measure, which has yet to be demonstrated. A consistent approach is needed from the legislator to ensure that the development of any measures concerning drivers’ data is done in full respect of data protection principles". He further recommends to:

- "evaluate the impact of the use of a microchip in the driving licences - ensure that the overall design of the processing is privacy friendly and proportionate to the purposes pursued - specify the data or categories of data to be stored in the microchip, in compliance with the principles of proportionality and data minimisation - provide sufficient guarantees for the effective exercise of data subjects' rights - ensure a strict limitation of access rights in view of the legitimate purposes for which relevant authorities and any other recipients would need to access the data."

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