It has been sixteen years since the EU passed the EU Privacy Directive 95/45/EC and each EU country along with other EEA and global economies have implemented the laws and regulations to adopt the requirements set for in the Directive.  Much has changed since then in the digital economy, technology in general and the world of data protection and privacy.

In 2010 we also celebrated the 30th anniversary of the ‘OECD Guidelines Governing the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Data Flows of Personal Data’. Around this same timeframe, the EU Commission, the Council of Europe, the OECD, the US Department of Commerce, APEC and a number of other global entities have established efforts to revisit their frameworks and to establish interoperability and cooperation mechanisms to better meet the challenges of the digital economy.

Certainly those taken up by the EU and specifically by the UK are among the lead. These efforts are about to reach a turning point. The dialog is about to turn into direction and action.

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