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Personal Data Protection in Georgia Approaching World Standards facebook.com/ georgiatoday www.ggeorgiatodayeorgiatoday..gege IssueIss no: 821 • FEBRUARY 26 - 29, 2016 • PUBLISHED TWICE WEEKLY PRICE: GEL 2.50 In this week’s issue... Read. Learn. Enjoy. Introducing Georgia Today/ Education NEWS PAGE 2 UK PM Strikes Deal over Special EU Status, Possible Brexit Looms POLITICS PAGE 5 Lying in Kim Chang-Gyu, the acting Wait: Camp Ambassador of South Korea to Georgia explains Burjanadze FOCUS how South Korea became ON DEVELOPMENT the success it is today, and what Georgia could learn AND EDUCATION from it PAGE 8 POLITICS PAGE 6 Meet the AlphaMedic Personal Data Protection in Georgia Consortium Members Approaching World Standards BUSINESS PAGE 9 Child Brides, Child Mothers BY MAKA LOMADZE PersonalData: arcserveafrica.co.za SOCIETY PAGE 10 ecently, a number of videos were shown on TV to educate citizens about personal data protection and Artist of the Month: The their rights. The Personal Data Protection Inspector’s Offi ce has Animal Portraits Rexisted in Georgia since 2013. According to the statistics of 2015, around 120 people applied, over of Tama 1200 consultations were given and 65 trainings and public lectures were delivered in which 1600 citizens took part. GEORGIA TODAY inter- Popkova- viewed Nino Tsagareishvili, representative of the Foreign Relations Department of the Inspec- Kapanadze tor’s Offi ce. Continued on page 2 CULTURE PAGE 15 GEORGIA TODAY 2 NEWS FEBRUARY 26 - 29, 2016 Read. Learn. Enjoy. Introducing Georgia Today/ Education ear friends and future readers, For us the process of Dlearning is so important that we’ve decided to dedicate an entire publication to it. Now this is unusual, actually it is an anomaly when it comes to global trends, because every year, every day, there are fewer and fewer newspapers in print on the planet. News is becom- ing digital. And that is a good thing because it indicates pro- gress in technology. It is the difference between the world that you’ve grown up in and the one that we (we’re 30-something years old!) have watched change and evolve so quickly. Just imag- ine this: antibiotics, perhaps the most important medical technol- ogy, did not exist until World War II. We were around ten years old when we fi rst heard about the inter- net. We marvel at the technology that for so many of you is just normal. We also know that not all of it is a good thing. You see, so much tech, data and sheer information came into our lives so quickly that sometimes phones, but it is for that very stories. We hope that you will interact we have to take a step back and really reason that we continue to learn. with us and become more than just read- talk about what it means for the people Each month we are going to ers through Twitter, Facebook and email. we care about the most. Also we want bring you stories about people, The bottom line (another English term) to tell you this: There is power in the about technology, about inno- is that we want to connect with you and printed word, in holding something like vative new kinds of business to share some stories each month that this very newspaper in your hands. It in Georgia and even some- we fi nd fascinating. Sure, it’s strange to means that not just one person wrote times about how it all fi ts into be reading about technology in a printed their feelings on Facebook or in a Word- the larger global picture— newspaper, but irony can be a beautiful press blog, but that a lot of people- the what fancy people call ‘for- thing. It reminds us that the world around writer, the editors, the publisher, the eign policy.’ We are going to us is not constructed in binary code: designers, etc., all believed in the power include an English dictionary at the bot- black and white, off and on, right and of those words too, believed enough to tom of the page to explain the words wrong, one and zero. So if you fi nd your- print them. you see in bold, an Info Box to explain self reading about technology in a news- That is why this article is sitting in rub”: It never ends. We think that every about the company or person in the arti- paper or about Lebowski on a laptop, we front of you right now. We wanted to about education, hence the title. Sure, human being on earth is still a student. cle in more detail, and a Food for Thought hope it brings a smile to your face and say “Hello” on paper and to make it offi - this means that we hope that students The cleverest people out there already box to get you thinking and debating that you know we are smiling, too. cial, to connect with you and tell you a are going to read it—we even hope that know this, and they never stop learning. “outside the box.” And we are not going little bit about what we are going to do this may end up in some classrooms. But We at GEORGIA TODAY are students, to write long pedantic articles to try and Until next time, in our new monthly publication, what here’s the thing about being a student, too. We may have some grey hairs and convince you that we are smart. We Will Cathcart and Katie Ruth Davies we hope to do together. This paper is or what in English slang we call “the remember what life was like before cell simply are going to share some exciting Editors, Georgia Today/Education Personal Data Protection in Georgia Approaching World Standards Continued from page 1 HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO data controller to update the data if the APPLY TO THE PERSONAL data is incomplete, inaccurate, not WHY WAS IT DECIDED TO DATA INSPECTOR? updated, or was illegally collected and ESTABLISH THIS SERVICE? An individual can submit a complaint processed. Sucha request may be sub- The Law of Georgia on Personal Data regarding an alleged violation of data mitted either in writing, orally or by Protection, which entered into force protection rights online (by sending an electronic means. Within 15 days of the in 2012, foresees the establishment of e-mail or via Facebook) or call request being received, a data controller a supervisory authority - The Personal +995322421000. is obliged to update the data or to inform Data Protection Inspector in order to the data subject of the grounds for refusal. eral remedies to data subjects: this could • Insist on temporary or permanent supervise and monitor the lawfulness WHERE CAN SOMEONE The service is free of charge. be through the Court or the Offi ce of the termination of data processing; of data processing and the implemen- FIND INFORMATION ABOUT Personal Data Protection Inspector. The • Insist on termination of data process- tation of data protection legislation. THEIR PERSONAL DATA? WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE latter mechanism is cost effective and ing, their blocking, deletion, destruction The establishment of this institution Generally, one can get such information BETWEEN THE APPROACHES of course takes less time than cases dealt or depersonalization; was also an obligation under the 2001 from the organization that processes the TO FOREIGNERS AND with in Court. The Inspector can utilize • Insist on termination of data transfer Additional Protocol to the Council of data. Various categories of data processed GEORGIANS IN YOUR SYSTEM? different measures to enforce the Law, to other states and international organ- Europe Convention 108 regarding by public or private organizations are There is no difference between foreign- such as: izations; supervisory authorities and cross- also available online on the Inspector’s ers and Georgians in our system. We • Force the elimination of the violation • Give written advice and recommen- border data fl ows. Further, the visa website through the Filing System Cat- treat each and every complaint and case and the defi ciencies related to data pro- dations; liberalization process with the Euro- alogues. If someone is interested what equally, without distinction. cessing; • Impose fi nes. pean Union necessitated carrying out is implied by personal data and how to comprehensive reforms in the fi eld of control such data, he/she can apply to HOW CAN WE BE SURE data protection, including the adoption the Inspector’s Offi ce for a consultation. OUR PERSONAL DATA MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR of relevant legislation, its practical IS WELL-PROTECTED? I would like to apologize for the incorrect photograph which accompanied the implementation, effective operation of CAN A PERSON UPDATE In case of alleged violation of data pro- article “Polish Foreign Minister on Ukraine, Georgia and Russia” in this week’s the Inspector’s Offi ce and raising pub- THEIR PERSONAL DATA? tection rights, the Law of Georgia on printed issue of GT/Business (#820/15) which showed Frank-Walter Steinmeier lic awareness. A data subject is entitled to request the Personal Data Protection provides sev- instead of the interviewee, Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykovsky. GEORGIA TODAY FEBRUARY 26 - 29, 2016 NEWS 3 Ownership of Paris Leuville Let’s Read Aloud writers of the project, Toresa Mossy, it is BY EKA KARSAULIDE Chateau to Be Transferred to a unique opportunity for authors to meet their readers and potential readers. “Mostly, reading a book is a relationship or the fi rst time Georgia joined between reader and book, the writer is the World Read Aloud Day, always somewhere apart. However, today Georgia which is celebrated in more we had an opportunity to communicate than 100 different countries on with the readers and understand what February 24.
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