Gloria González Fuster

Key developments

• 🇳🇱 In The Netherlands, the census of 28 February 1971 sparkles social unrest, as well as policy discussions about the need for new laws on privacy.

• 🇬🇧 In the United Kingdom, the census of 26 April 1971 also triggers protests. In the picture, Sue Rogers, 26, protests on Plymouth Hoe, as evoked in the Anarchist Weekly Freedom on 17 April 1971.

Also this year

• 🇺🇸 Federal Data Banks, Computers, and the Bill of Rights: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-second Congress, February 23-25, and March 2-15 and 17, 1971.
• 🇳🇴 On 13 and 14 June 1971 takes place the First International Oslo Symposium on Data Banks and Privacy, held at the Institute for Private Law of Oslo University. Papers presented at the event (by Klaus Lenk, Mogens Brabrand-Jensen, G. Russel Pipe, and Jon Bing) were compiled in the volume Data Banks and Society (1972).
• 🇦🇹 In Austria is published the report Elektronische Datenverarbeitung im Bundesbereich (Bericht der Bundesregierung an Nationalrat und Bundesrat).

Literature

• Alschuler, Albert W. (1971), ‘A Different View of Privacy‘ Tex. L. Rev. 49, 872-880.
• Aronstein, Claude Serge (1971), ‘Défense de la vie privée : Essai pour contribuer à la survie de notre civilisation‘, Journal des Tribunaux, 3 juillet, 4750, 453-460.
• Bohmer, A., Translation of the West German Bill of the Data Protection Law and of the Official Message to Accompany the Bill. Washington, D.C., Law Library of Congress 1971.
• Braibant, Guy (1971), ‘La protection des droits individuels au regard du développement de l’informatique’, Revue internationale de droit comparé, 23(4), oct.-déc., 793-817.
• Browne, Peter S. (1971), ‘Data Privacy and Integrity: An Overview‘, Proceedings of the 1971 ACM SIGFIDET Workshop on Data Description, Access and Control.
• Countryman, Vern (1971), ‘Diminishing Right of Privacy: A Rejoinder (Comment)‘, Texas Law Review, 49(5), 881-882.
• Dixon Jr, Robert G., et al. (1971), The Right of privacy: A symposium on the implications of Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 US 497 (1965)’, Da Capo Press.
• Miller, Arthur M. (1971), The Assault on Privacy, Ann Arbor.
• Miller, Roger F. (1971), ‘Computers and privacy: What price analytic power?‘, in Proceedings of the 1971 26th Annual Conference, 706-716.
• Niblett, G. B. F. (1971), Digital information and the privacy problem, OECD.
• Robinson, Jack (1971), ‘Mind your own business!’, Freedom – Anarchist Weekly, M II, 17 April 1971.
• Steinmüller, Wilhelm (1971), ‘Rechtsinformatik — Elektronische Datenverarbeitung und Recht‘, Juristische Rundschau, 1-9.
• Steinmüller, Lutterbeck, Mallmann, Harbort, Kolb und Schneider (1971), Grundfragen des Datenschutzes, in Anlage zu BT-Drucks. VI/3826.
• Weber, Steven J. (1971), ‘Habeas Data: The Right of Privacy Versus Computer Surveillance’, University of San Francisco Law Review 5(2), 358-377

In the media

• ‘Lip prints, a new look for detectives‘, Press, CXI, 32500, 9 January 1971, 11.
• ‘Ontbrekende wetgeving op privacy – Leidse comité gaat volkstelling saboteren‘, Leidse Courant, 25 January 1971, 3.
• ‘Surveillance of civilians‘, Press, CXI 32540, 25 February 1971, 11.
• ‘Invasie in de privacy‘, De Volkskrant, 10 April 1971, 25.
• ‘Agitatie tegen de Engelse volkstelling‘, Leidsch Dagblad, 16 April 1971, 9.
• ‘Asian leader derides census fears’, The Guardian, 16 April 1971.
• Weinraub, Bernard, ‘Computer Invasion Of Personal Privacy Worries Europeans‘ The New York Times, 17 April 1971.
• Lee, John M., ‘British Census Is On, With Few Incidents‘, The New York Times, 27 April 1971, 3.
• ‘Privacy laws ‘insufficient’‘, Press, CXI, 32613, 22 May 1971, 18.

• ‘U bent al een nummer‘, Limburgs Dagblad, 28 August 1971.
• Oelsner, Lesley, ‘Automation of Justice System Held Threat to Civil Liberties‘, The New York Times, 6 November 1971.

Watch

• 📺 ‘Andere Tijden – De burger in kaart‘, a 2011 NPO Documentary about the 1971 Dutch census.

Music

• 🎵 The Kinks ‘Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues‘ (from Muswell Hillbillies, RCA Victor, 1971), featuring the lyrics ‘Well the milkman’s a spy, and the grocer keeps on following me, And the woman next door’s an undercover for the K.G.B., And the man from the Social Security, Keeps on invading my privacy, Oh there ain’t no cure for acute schizophrenia disease’.

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