A brief history of the GDPR
This resource provides a detailed timeline of the EU General Data Protection Regulation from 1981 through 2016.
Contributors:
Ernst Oliver Wilhelm
CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, FIP
CPO
GFT Technologies SE
Editor's note: To keep a clear focus on the GDPR and keeping the history hereof brief, this resource abstains from adding some elements to this list which one may consider worth to be mentioned but missing here (e.g. any trialogue or LIBE meeting), and any discussion on some partial aspects of the GDPR (e.g. one stop shop, right to be forgotten, role of the DPO). Furthermore, one may notice that for the same reason this resource has given reference to the Directive on Data Transfers for Policing and Judicial Purposes (though being part of the Data Protection Reform Package like the GDPR) on a selective basis only.
This resource provides a detailed timeline of the GDPR from 1981 through 2016.
A brief history of the GDPR
- 28 January 2016: The 47 countries of the Council of Europe as well as European institutions, agencies and bodies celebrated the 10th annual European Data Protection Day which marks the anniversary of the Council of Europe's Convention 108. The series of events dedicated to this anniversary included a conference co-hosted by the European Parliament and the European Data Protection Supervisor for EU officials on the EU data protection reform.
Contributors:
Ernst Oliver Wilhelm
CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, FIP
CPO
GFT Technologies SE