Data Security Breaches and Privacy in Europe aims to consider data protection and cybersecurity
issues more specifically it aims to provide a fruitful discussion on data security breaches.
A detailed analysis of the European Data Protection framework will be examined. In particular
the Data Protection Directive 95 45 EC the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications
and the proposed changes under the Data Protection Regulation (data breach notifications) and
its implications are considered. This is followed by an examination of the Directive on Attacks
against information systems and a discussion of the proposed Cybersecurity Directive
considering its shortcomings and its effects. The author concludes by looking at whether a
balance can be drawn by the current and proposed Data Protection framework to protect against
data security breaches and considers what more needs to be achieved.
