The Government says it notes, “with disappointment”, the European Parliament’s objection, today, to the entry into force of the European Commission’s decision to remove certain jurisdictions, including Gibraltar, from the EU’s list of ‘high-risk’ third-countries with strategic deficiencies as regards anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (“AML/CFT”).
In response to the GSD’s recent claim that the former administration also spent significant public funds on repairing GSLP built housing estates, the Government ha said that this claim is ‘totally incorrect’. Instead they note that ‘The repairs to Harbour Views did not cost the Government millions and millions of pounds. In this case, the contractor was taken to court, lost the case and it was the contractor, not the government, who had to pay for the repairs.’
Together with other privacy enforcement authorities around the world, the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority, as Data Protection Commissioner, will be reviewing the use of personal data by mobile apps to identify privacy issues, as part of the 2014 Sweep by the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (“GPEN”).
GPEN was established to foster cross-border cooperation among privacy authorities a second sweep will take place between May 12th and 18th 2014, with authorities participating ‘in a coordinated effort to examine privacy issues related to mobile applications.’
The Government has described the Opposition’s criticism of the allocation process for the new affordable housing schemes as a “naked attempt” by Mr Feetham's party to “ride on the back of unsubstantiated rumours on social media” about alleged allocations, all of which, it stresses, “are untrue.”