<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Repealed </Td> </Tr> <P> The Data Protection Directive (officially Directive 95 / 46 / EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data (PII (US)) and on the free movement of such data) was a European Union directive adopted in 1995 which regulates the processing of personal data within the European Union . It is an important component of EU privacy and human rights law . </P> <P> The General Data Protection Regulation, adopted in April 2016, has superseded the Data Protection Directive and became enforceable starting on 25 May 2018 . </P> <P> The right to privacy is a highly developed area of law in Europe . All the member states of the European Union (EU) are also signatories of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Article 8 of the ECHR provides a right to respect for one's "private and family life, his home and his correspondence", subject to certain restrictions . The European Court of Human Rights has given this article a very broad interpretation in its jurisprudence . </P>

Current status of the european union’s data protection directive on information privacy
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