Annual Report 2006 

Review of 2006

Technical developments combined with the internet make ever larger amounts of personal data available for analysis, profiling, tracing and control. In its Annual Report on 2006, the Dutch DPA stresses that the gathering and processing of these data by private and public organisations must always comply with statutory values and norms.

pdf documentread the Introduction by chairman Jacob Kohnstamm (193 KB)
pdf documentread the English Summary of the Annual Report 2006 (495 KB)

The Dutch DPA continues in its efforts to strike a proper balance between the interests of security, control and utility, and to guarantee as far as possible the protection of the private life of individual people, which can come under pressure from those interests.