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Ministry of science and education of ukraine ukrainian state university of finance and

International trade

Foreign languages department

PROJECT WORK

“EUROPEAN UNION ONLINE PRIVACY LAW”

IV year student

BDMV-42 group

Andrii Gonchar

Supervisor

N. M. Gromova

Kyiv – 2013

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION	3
CHAPTER 1. LEGAL FRAMEWORK	4
1.1. Directives	5
Regulation	6
Definitions	6
Fundamental Principles Governing Personal Data Processing	7
Grounds for Processing of Personal Data	8
Processing of Special Categories of Data	9
Exemptions	9
Rights of Data Subjects	10
1.8.1. Right of Access	10
1.8.2. Right to Object	10
Data Collection by Smartphone Applications	10
Transfer of Personal Data to Third Countries Outside the EU	11
CHAPTER 2 PENDING REFORMS	13
2.1. Definitions and Basic Principles	14
2.2. Processing of Special Categories of Data	15
2.3. Processing of Health Data	15
CHAPTER 3 ROLE OF DATA PROTECTION AUTHORITIES	16
3.1. EU Level: European Data Protection Supervisor	16
3.2. Member States	16
Designation of Data Protection Officers	18
SUMMARY	19
LIST OF SOURCES	22

Introduction

Importance of the subject. Online privacy laws discussions are increasing in the media. Consumers are growing more concerned about their right to privacy. Some users prefer to shield their activities while participating in any activity on the Internet. From chatrooms to shopping online, consumers would like for their purchases to remain theirs exclusively. However, as cases involving harassment and cyberbullying become more prevalent, legislators must balance the line between privacy and protecting people online. With the development of the Internet, however, privacy became more of a problem for the government. The EU online privacy law appears to be the most actual in the aspect of Ukrainian European foreign policy vector and the necessity of implementation EU law into Ukrainian.

This topic seems to be new and not researched before in Ukraine.

The objectives of the project work are:

1. to analyze and to provide a full overview of current EU online privacy law;

2. to define further development and pending reforms in this field;

3. to learn the role of data protection authorities according to the EU online privacy law.

The work consists of 3 chapters and 16 paragraphs on 24 pages.