Difference between revisions of "Legal background"

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The following are the main legal documents or treaties that express a certain right to privacy.

Council of Europe’s [[http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/108.htm Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data]](Convention 108, ratified in 1981).

Directive [x]

95/46/EC]] on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (24-10-1995).

97/66/EC]] concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the telecommunications sector (15-12-1997).

Replaced by the 'eprivacy' directive [2002/58/EC] concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and electronic communications).
- Replaced by directive [2009/136/EC].

The following agreements and regulations are related to, or sometimes even opposed to, the above rights to privacy

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 ===Worldwide===
-[[http://www.oecd.org/ Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)]]
+[http://www.oecd.org/ Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)]
-[[http://www.oecd.org/internet/interneteconomy/oecdguidelinesontheprotectionofprivacyandtransborderflowsofpersonaldata.htm Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data]] (1980).
+[http://www.oecd.org/internet/interneteconomy/oecdguidelinesontheprotectionofprivacyandtransborderflowsofpersonaldata.htm Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data] (1980).
 ===In Europe===