The Ministries of France and Germany recently announced more details on Europe's next generation cloud environment, publishing several documents on GAIA-X. The EU Cloud Code of Conduct for Cloud Service Providers analysed the publications and commented on the core principles, highlighting alignments of both initiates. Also, the SRIW membership continues to grow, the work on the pseudonymisation continues and the Bitkom Privacy Conference will feature the EU Cloud Code of Conduct.
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Your SCOPE Europe Team.
Welcome, Alibaba Cloud
We're excited to share that Alibaba Cloud, who already is cooperating successfully with us on the development and implementation of credible co-regulation, joins our umbrella organization Selbstregulierung Informationswirtschaft e.V. [read more here].
GDPR Pseudonymisation Code
Together with Bitkom and GDD, we continue the development of a Code of Conduct on the use of GDPR compliant pseudonymisation [read more here].
Save the date: 15. September
The EU Cloud Code of Conduct will host an online event on September 15. Stay tuned as more information will be shared here soon.
EU Cloud CoC on GAIA-X
In June 2020, Ministries of France and Germany announced that Europe's next generation cloud environment is entering its next level of design and development. Analysing current publications, the General Assembly of the EU Cloud Code of Conduct highly welcomes GAIA-X core principles, as both initiatives seem well aligned, already. In a recent publication, the EU Cloud Code of Conduct for Cloud Service Providers comments on the most relevant aspects of GAIA-X, potential alignments and next steps [read more here].
Privacy Conference 2020
Our team will be participating at the Bitkom Privacy Conference on 28.-29. September. Our Managing Director Jörn will host the panel discussion "Codes of Conduct - The Solution for third country data transfer". Frank, our Director Monitoring and Auditing, Legal Affairs, will join the deep dive workshop on third country transfers.