A public body asks whether GDPR principles echo earlier Directive 95/46 themes. Which answer is most accurate?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
If Directive 95/46 felt familiar when you first read the GDPR, that is because the family resemblance is real. Fairness, purpose limits, and security thinking carried forward — then got stronger teeth. Evolution, not a blank-page rewrite.
Full Explanation
Many GDPR principles refine and continue themes already present under Directive 95/46/EC, such as fairness and lawfulness, purpose limitation, data quality, and security. The GDPR advances the framework through direct applicability, stronger rights, accountability, and enforcement, but it does not invent European data-protection principles from nothing. Recognising continuity helps public bodies map legacy compliance knowledge to the current Regulation.