History of data protection: 2004

Key developments

🇪🇺 🇺🇸 Council Decision of 17 May 2004 on the conclusion of an Agreement between the European Community and the United States of America on the processing and transfer of PNR data by Air Carriers to the United States (US) Department of Homeland Security, Bureau of Customs and Border Protection.
🇪🇺 The European Parliament launches proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) against the Council and the European Commission for having adopted a legal framework authorising the transfer of air passenger data to the US.
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is appointed.

Also this year

🇪🇺 The European Commission publishes issues a report assessing the implementation of the Safe Harbour Decision (Commission Staff Working Document SEC(2004) 1323, of 20 October 2004), identifying a series of shortcomings.
⚖️ The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decides in Von Hannover v Germany, on 24 June 2004.
The Article 29 Working Party publishes its seventh annual report, covering 2002 and 2003.
🇹🇳 Tunisia adopts the Loi organique No. 63/2004 portant sur la protection des données à caractère personnelles.
The annual Spring Conference of the Data Protection Authorities in the EU is organised in Rotterdam by the Dutch DPA.

Literature

Aly, Götz, and Karl Heinz Roth (2004), The Nazi Census: Identification and Control in the Third Reich, Temple University Press.
Berkvens, J. M. A. (2004), ‘Ontvreemde privacy‘, Rechtsgeleerd Magazijn Themis, 267-269.
Poplawska, Ewa (2004), ‘The Protection of Fundamental Rights in a Digital Age in Poland’, Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Splitu, 41(3-4), 249-260.
Martínez Martínez, Ricard (2004), Una aproximación crítica a la autodeterminación informativa, Thomson Civitas.
Öman, Sören (2004), ‘Implementing data protection in law’, Scandinavian studies in law 47, 390-403.
Schartum, Dag Wiese (2004), ‘Making access rights operative’, IT Law, Scandinavian studies in law, September, 275–296.
Scott, Joan W. and Debra Keates (eds.) (2004), Going Public: Feminism and the Shifting Boundaries of the Private Sphere, University of Illinois Press.
Seipel, Peter (2004), ‘IT Law in the Framework of Legal Informatics’, Scandinavian Studies in Law 47, 31-47.
Stewart, Blair (2004), ‘A comparative survey of data protection authorities – Part 1: Form and structure‘, Privacy Law and Policy Reporter, 11(2), 46.

Films

🎬 Aus Liebe zum Volk [I love you all], 2004, Eyal Sivan and Audrey Maurion. more information here.

In the media

Meller, Paul, ‘Europe Asks Court to Rule on Air Security Pact‘, The New York Times, 22 April 2004.