Ep. 2 - The History of Privacy in the EU

In this episode, we share what we've learned after independently researching the topic of the history of Privacy in the European Union - an ambitious task given the influential role that Europe has played in the context of Privacy frameworks and legislation in the 20 and 21st century! Throughout their discussion, we give mention to the following topics which span over 100 years of economic, technological, and political developments:

• Pivotal moments in US, EU, and World History leading up to WWI/WWII
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• The Council of Europe and The European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
• The state of Information Technology approaching the 1940's / 1950's
• Political Evolution in the EU from the 1950's to the Early 2000's, including the Treaty of Rome, the creation of the European Economic Community, the Maastricht Treaty, Treaty of Lisbon, and the creation of the Council of Europe
• A (brief!) history of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) + the OECD's guidelines governing the protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data (“The Guidelines”)
• "Convention 108” aka the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data
• The 1995 Data Protection Directive
• Trans Atlantic Data Flows, Working Party 29 & the Safe Harbor Principles
• A (brief) mention of GDPR & the ePrivacy Directive