A museum digitisation project asks what the Council of Europe Convention 1981 contributed before EU directives. Which contribution is most accurate?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Long before the big EU directives, Convention 108 planted a binding European flag: protect people when computers automatically process their data. Museums digitising collections are walking into that same old concern with new scanners. Early convention, lasting idea.
Full Explanation
The Council of Europe’s 1981 Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (Convention 108) was an early binding international instrument in Europe on automated personal-data processing. It predates Directive 95/46/EC and the GDPR and forms part of the legislative lineage CIPP/E candidates should recognise. It is not an EU regulation and did not itself create the GDPR enforcement architecture.