Key developments
- 🇪🇺 The European Parliament and of the Council adopt Directive 2002/58/EC of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and electronic communications), OJ L 201, 31/07/2002, 37-47.
Also this year
- 🇱🇺 Directive 95/46/EC is transposed into Luxembourg law by the law of 2 August 2002 regarding the protection of persons with regard to the processing of personal data, which enters into force on 1 December 2002. The Commission nationale pour la protection des donnèes (CNPD) is set up in November 2002.
- The Article 29 Working Party:
- meets a total of 5 times, and adopts 13 documents (cf. p. 9 of report published in 2004).
- publishes its Fifth annual report on the situation regarding the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and privacy in the European Union and in third countries, covering 2000, (WP54, adopted on 6 March 2002), feat. a foreword by the President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi; see Part 1 and Part 2.
Literature
- Bratman, Ben (2002), ‘Brandeis and Warren’s the Right to Privacy and the Birth of the Right to Privacy’, Tennessee Law Review 69(3), 623-652.
- Bygrave, Lee A. (2002), Data Protection Law, Approaching its Rationale, Logic and Limits, Kluwer Law International.
- Gutwirth, Serge (2002), Privacy and the Information Age, Rowman & Littlefield.
- Solove, Daniel J. (2002), ‘Conceptualizing Privacy‘, California Law Review, 90(4), 1087 .
Gloria González Fuster 