Greece: (Privacy and Data Security) Public consultation on Joint Act draft on data safety

The Hellenic Data Protection Authority (DPA) and Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) launched a consultation on a Joint Act draft on data safety guidelines to be implemented by providers of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks in the context of their data retention obligations imposed by Law 3917/2011 (implementing Directive 2006/24/EC). The draft mentions the technical and organizational measures that need to be implemented by said providers in order to ensure data security, including reference to security officer, encryption, data separation, business continuity, physical security, backups, logical access controls, security zones, event logging, security incident management, data destruction policy, internal controls, etc.

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