January 28th of every year is Data Privacy Day. Data Privacy Day commemorates the Jan. 28, 1981, signing of Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy and data protection. Leonardo Cervera Navas, Prof. David Hoffman and Prof. Jolynn Dellinger started Data Privacy Day eleven years ago with an event at Duke Law School to discuss transatlantic cooperation in privacy and data protection. Prof. Hoffman moderates a panel discussion including Prof. Jolynn Dellinger, Mr.

Sponsored by the Duke University Center for European Studies and Duke Law Center for International and Comparative Law, this day-long conference brings together leading legal scholars, privacy professionals, and government officials from Europe and the United States to discuss the future of data privacy in light of the new realities of our times. Welcome and opening remarks by Francesca Bignami and Gilbert W. Merkx.

Recorded on January 28, 2008.

Panel titled: The Past & Present of Data Privacy ; Welcome & Opening Remarks.