The Public Sector and the Forthcoming EU Data Protection Regulation journal article Peter Blume European Data Protection Law Review, Volume 1 (2015), Issue 1, Page 32 - 38 The article considers the well-known question of whether data protection should be regulated in an identical way in the private and public sector. This is as a starting point currently the case in Directive 95/46 EC but it is not obvious that this is desirable when a regulation instead of a directive is adopted. In any case it is obvious that this question creates friction in the legal policy deliberations and for this reason the article takes a renewed look at the issue.
The Data Subject journal article Peter Blume European Data Protection Law Review, Volume 1 (2015), Issue 4, Page 258 - 264 This article considers whether it is fortunate that data protection rules, as a starting point, apply to all physical persons as data subjects, or whether it would be better to differentiate between kinds of persons on grounds of their ability to act as a data subject. In order to protect all persons, it is argued that a principle of care should be part of data protection law.