Data protection: Committee of Ministers updates recommendation on profiling
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has adopted a Recommendation aiming to respond to the radical changes in profiling techniques in the last decade and to the consequent need for additional safeguards to protect personal data and private life of individuals. The text, which updates a previous recommendation on the same topic adopted in 2010, aims to align its provisions with the modernised data protection “Convention 108”, known as “ Convention 108+ ”. The recommendation provides that respect for fundamental rights and freedoms, notably human dignity, privacy, freedom of expression, non-discrimination, social justice, cultural diversity and democracy should be guaranteed in both the public and private sectors during all profiling operations. The recommendation refers to profiling as any form of automated processing of personal data, including use of machine learning systems, consisting in the use of data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to an indiv