Archives and Data Protection
summary
A Council of Europe–commissioned survey of 48 national archives finds widespread legal uncertainty after GDPR, with many repositories defaulting to closure or shifting responsibility to researchers rather than deciding access. National rules still use a common 30-year closure rule that clashes with data protection principles. Pilots show both harm and help from AI: reidentification risk versus automated sensitivity review and metadata generation for large email sets (one collection has 18,000 messages), and litigation in several countries proves access can be won when courts balance public interest.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Archives and data protection
- 1:27What archives do
- 5:00Council of Europe recommendations
- 18:15Audience poll
- 19:18Panelist reactions
- 21:28EU data protection in archives
- 35:15Balancing access and protection
- 38:47Bulgarian archives cases
- 44:48Court documents and forgetting
- 55:13AI and new archives
- 1:08:27Audience questions and panel responses
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