Deutsche Welle reports on comments on data security and privacy protection by former Norway Prime Minister, Nobel Peace Prize Committee Chairman and Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland. Jagland will speak at this summer’s Global Media Forum, the report states, noting the event will explore “the extent to which the right to freedom of expression is negotiable, what its limits are and when these are overstepped, with the danger of private data becoming public property.” Jagland said the Council of Europe is updating its Data Protection Convention, adding “it could be a universal model to ensure a proper balance between privacy, security and information-sharing.”
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