Guarantees of Personal Data Protection were discussed in Prague

2014-11-13 14:23:24

The regional meeting of Personal Data Protection Agencies was held on November 6, in Prague. It was attended by the participants from Czech Republic, Poland, Albania, Hungary, Slovakia, Estonia and other Eastern European countries. The Office of Personal Data Protection Inspector of Georgian was represented by George Jokhadze.

The meeting agenda was allocated to tree main topics: fraud detection mechanisms in the private sector, personal data protection guarantees and anti- fraud campaign; processing of personal data in the context of the protection of whistleblowers. All topics were discussed with the participation of the private sector representatives as well as representatives of the personal data protection agencies.

Special attention was paid to challenges related to the legislation, hindering resolving of the mentioned problems at the national level as well as at the international one. The discussion was important for the Office of Georgian DPA in the context of identifying such problematic issues and managing them through the legislative amendments.