The Handbook is available in multiple languages, and it is a useful tool for every citizen. It has been prepared by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), with the Council of Europe (together with the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights) and the European Data Protection Supervisor.
Under the GDPR a Privacy Policy is absolutely necessary to each and every website where personal data are processed. Websites, e-shops, social media and blogs must have Privacy Policies, when there is a contact form, a login function or users may create accounts or even send their data without creating an account. Users are Data Subjects, and websites' owners are considered Data Controllers. And Data Controllers must inform users about the ways their data are processed, and their rights towards this processing.
E-health applications and Greek data protection law It was only after year 2010 that Greek patients got a unique social security identification number. Until then insured citizens were identified only through the number of their health booklets given by their various social security organizations. Law 3892/2010 set an electronic system of public health, and today the bigger part of it has been already implemented.
French and Greek approach on the professional email addresses Is a professional email address –such as [email protected] - personal data? Well, in France no, but in Greece yes. Section 13 of EU Directive 2002/58/CE governs the collection and use of email addresses. This directive was implemented in France in 2004 (Loi nº 2004-575 du 21 juin 2004) and also in Greece in 2006 (Law 3471/2006 art.11 section 3).
What follows the foundation of a company? Obligations and practical instructions. By Elena Alk. Spyropoulou, Lawyer Founding a company is a complex and time consuming affair. Even when it’s founded, legal obligations of partners do not stop; on the contrary they just begin. Depending on the nature and the activity of a company its legal needs differentiate, but the first actions are common to all and are: 1. Keeping Books and Records. Firstly you must keep the right books (invoices, calendar, suppliers’ lists, etc) both for tax reasons and to make your everyday life easier.
Safe surfing in the internet. Internet is a means of communications for little and… older children. Even adults often ignore its rules and must learn them from children, which undoubtedly spend a great amount of time surfing. What should our young friends be careful while being online? First of all their personal data. Personal data are all those information that determine us as individuals, students, persons. That is that kind of data that make us unique and different from the rest and individuate us. Which are these data? Even just our name and surname are personal data.
Internet tools for legal protection The best protection on any new business move is informing. What do we do though when we have to face evolution on the field of our business activity or when we are ignorant of the legal aspect of our moves? Visiting a lawyer is certainly the safer solution. Is it inevitable in all cases or could we sometimes manage without his advice? And how does our lawyer stay informed in order to give us the wiser answers?
Online fraud and electronic crime in the Greek Courts. By Elena Alk. Spyropoulou Attorney at law. Growing amounts of computer fraud cases appear, or in general of “electronic” and “online” crimes, before the Greek justice. How do Greek courts treat cases of online dispute? With a lot of consideration and multipage decisions. In the last years a competent jurisprudential corpus has been formed, which in cases, characteristic are the cases of domain names, offers almost a complete view on the matter.
When publication becomes piracy in the internet Websites full of pirated content Internet has made its entrance in our lives for good, and an increasing amount of people choose it as a means of communication. Many also choose to present their activities or even to trade their products and services through personal websites. To make a website more appealing and to stimulate users to visit it, content is not enough. So site owners add photos, songs, software and other works of the intellect, which are not their own, either they trade them or not.
What you should know in order to obtain a “European” domain name By Elena Spiropoulou, Attorney at law The European domain names ending in .eu are close to becoming real. Starting from the last trimester of 2005 one can obtain a .eu domain name, while the legislation regarding the registration procedure is gradually being published. EURid, the European Registry of Internet Domain Names, is a non-for-profit organization based in Brussels which manages the .eu top-level Internet domain under contract with the European Commission.