The Office of the Inspector became a member of the Berlin Group

2016-03-21 13:01:39

The Office of Personal Data Protection Inspector of Georgia became a member of the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications (Berlin Group) on March 21, 2016.

The aim of the Group is to elaborate different types of recommendations on improvement of data protection in telecommunications system, including internet. The Group consists of data protection supervisory authorities, as well as other governmental agencies, international organizations and individual experts from all over the world.

Becoming a member of the Group is new opportunity for the Office of Personal Data Protection Inspector to share experience and best practice of other countries in the area of the telecommunications, namely existing challenges and the ways how they are met.

Berlin Group was created in 1983 within the scope of International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners.