A municipal IT board assumes only GDPR principles matter and ignores earlier Convention language on automated processing. Which insight correctly connects that tradition to modern European data protection?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Europe worried about computers chewing through personal files long before the GDPR logo existed. Convention 108’s automated-processing focus is the ancestor story; GDPR is the modern chapter for digital personal data. Skipping that history leaves the IT board thinking privacy law started in 2018.
Full Explanation
Convention 108 was adopted to address risks of automatic processing of personal data and helped establish European data-protection principles that later informed EU instruments. The GDPR continues to regulate processing of personal data in today’s digital environments rather than inventing the field without precursors. Claiming no pre-GDPR automated-processing tradition, that Convention 108 covered only paper, or that US sectoral law displaced European conventions misstates the European lineage.