This is Amberhawk's response to the European Commission's proposals to change the Directive. The document contains comments on how to make European data protection legislation more effective (e.g. improved definition of "personal data" and "sensitive personal data", the need to link Article 8 of the Human Rights regime with the data protection regime, the need for effective supervision of law enforcement agencies and some comments on the implementation of the Accountability Principle. Last December, I delivered a talk to the Data Protection Forum entitled Downloadable from: http://www.amberhawk.com/policydoc.asp Dr. C. N. M. Pounder Director, Amberhawk Training Ltd Phone: 0845 680 2623 or Mob: 07735 365 585 amberhawk www.amberhawk.com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ All archives of messages are stored permanently and are available to the world wide web community at large at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/data-protection.html If you wish to leave this list please send the command leave data-protection to [log in to unmask] All user commands can be found at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/commandref.htm Any queries about sending or receiving messages please send to the list owner [log in to unmask] Full help Desk - please email [log in to unmask] describing your needs To receive these emails in HTML format send the command: SET data-protection HTML to [log in to unmask] (all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^