Day: November 28, 2012

Support for the beleaguered Data Protection Regulation has come from an unlikely source; the Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Competition Policy. In a speech delivered yesterday, he has implied that mergers between organisations which then combine databases of personal information could raise competition concerns and that the failure to adopt  the Regulation’s “right to data portability” will definitely do so. With respect to the latter point, Vice President Joaquín Almunia, said “I believe that a healthy competitive