The Data Registration Act (Wet Persoonsregistraties) was
approved in 1989 and became the first act that was concerned with data
protection. Dutch institutions or businesses needed the permission of their clients
to make use of the clients’ personal data for other purposes. A renewed act,
the Personal Data Protection Act (Wet Bescherming Persoonsgegevens Wbp),
based on the European Data Protection
Directive (95/46/EC), was developed in 2000 and came into force in 2001.
This act emphasised the protection of personal data during information
processes as a consequence of technological developments. The Data
Protection Authority
arranges supervision and compliance with both acts.
The General Data Protection Regulation was
implemented by the European Union in May 2016 to protect personal data of
European citizens in the digital age. European organisations were obliged to
implement the new act by 2018. The Data Protection Authorityhas been appointed to supervise
compliance with the act in the Netherlands.
The first
data protection act in Saba, Sint Eustatius and Bonaire (Caribbean Netherlands)
came into force in 2010, which is the Personal Data
Protection Act (Wet Bescherming
Persoonsgegevens Wbp BES). The act is based on the European Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC)
and the Dutch Personal Data Protection
Act.
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