Key developments
- The Swedish section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) convenes in Stockholm the Nordic Conference on the Right to Privacy, Conference for which Stig Strömholm, who had just finished a PhD thesis on the moral rights of the author (described here as ‘monumental’), prepared a detailed comparative study.
Also this year
- 🇺🇸 Computer privacy, Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, first session, pursuant to S. Res. 25., 14 and 15 March 1967.
- 🇬🇧 The House of Commons discusses the right of privacy, and specifically a ‘Bill to protect a person from any unreasonable and serious interference with his seclusion of himself, his family or his property from the public’: see the debate of 8 February 1967.
Literature
- Downs, Anthony (1967), ‘A Realistic Look at the Final Payoffs from Urban Data Systems‘, Public Administration Review 27(3), 204–10.
- Ervin Jr., Sam, J, The computer and individual privacy, speech delivered before the American Management Association, New. York City, 6 March 1967.
- European Court of Human Rights, Travaux Préparatoires to the European Convention on Human Rights: Information document on Article 8, Bilingual document, May 1967.
- Harrison, Annette (1967), The problem of privacy in the computer age: An annotated bibliography, RAND Corporation.
- Kalven, Harry (1967), ‘The problems of privacy in the year 2000‘, Daedalus, 96(3), 876-882.
- Strömholm, Stig (1967), ‘Right to privacy and rights of the personality: A comparative survey‘, Working paper prepared for the Nordic Conference on privacy organized by the International Commission of Jurists, Stockholm.
- Westin, Alan F. (1967) Privacy and Freedom, Atheneum.
Watch
- Right of privacy (1967), A NET Documentary, available at the Internet Archive: part I and part II.
In the media
- Packard, Vance, ‘Don’t Tell It to the Computer‘, The New York Times, 8 January 1967.
- ‘DC Output from our man in Washington [public inquiry into the regulatory and policy questions raised by the growing interdependence of computer services and communications services of common carriers], Computer Design: The Magazine of Modern Electronics, January 1967, 20.
- Goodman, Walter, ‘Snooping‘, The New York Times, 17 September 1967.
- Graham, Fred P., ‘Expert Says Computers Pose A Growing Menace to Privacy‘, The New York Times, 18 September 1967.
- ‘Elektronische invasie in ons privé-leven‘, De Telegraaf, 28 October 1967, 25.
- Miller, Arthur R. ‘The National Data Center and Personal Privacy’, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1967, 55 (cf. 2015 commentary).
- Graham, Fred P., ‘Law; A Plug in the ‘Big Ear’‘, The New York Times, 24 December 1967, 116.
Music
- 🎵 The Shoes ‘Peace and Privacy‘ (Polydor, 1967).
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