Welcome to Your SCOPE, our monthly insights on what we do and what drives us. Like everyone working in digital policy, the approaching GDPR keeps us busy. Therefore, we take a closer look at the regulation and how it affects cloud users and providers. We also share exciting news on new EU Cloud Code of Conduct Members, data protection for mobile health apps and a new Working Group under the Free Flow of Non-Personal Data Regulation.
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Your SCOPE Europe Team
Welcome, Epignosis!
We are thrilled that the EU Cloud Code of Conduct welcomes Epignosis LLC, the pioneers in modern eLearning, as a new SME Member. Learn more here.
Co-Chair at EC Working Group
Our Managing Director Jörn is one of the Co-Chairs of the European Commission's new Working Group on a Code of Conduct "Porting Data & Switching Cloud Service Providers".
The talk of the town
Unsuprisingly, the GDPR was the core issue at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington last month. Read what WP29 Chairwoman Andrea Jelinek had to say about enforcement, the role of DPOs and May 25 here.
TrustArc: joining the EU Cloud CoC
A great blog post by the EU Cloud CoC full-industry Member TrusArc on why they joined the EU Cloud Code of Conduct.
Data protection for mHealth apps
While participating in the drafting team of the Code of Conduct on privacy for mobile health (mHealth) apps, we were excited to learn about the launch of the EDPS-IPEN Privacy by Design contest for mHealth applications. More details here.
GDPR: The final countdown
The GDPR deadline is approaching. With less than seven weeks to go, let us take a look back at our event “One year EU Cloud Code of Conduct & 100 Days to go to GDPR”. Keep reading.