Gloria González Fuster

Key developments

• 🇪🇺 The European Parliament adopts Resolution of 8 April 1976 on the protection of the right of the individual in the face of developing technical progress in the field of automatic data processing (OJ C100, 3.5.1976, 27). See also, on this Resolution:
  • Motion for a Resolution of the European Parliament tabled by Mr Fellermaier et al. on the protection of the rights of the individual in the face of developing technical progress in the field of automatic data processing, Working Documents 1976-1977, Document 46/76, 6 April 1976.
  • Debate on 8 April 1976. OJ, Debates of the European Parliament 1975-1976 Session, Report of Proceedings of 5 to 9 April 1976.

Also this year

• At the Council of Europe there are discussions about setting up a Committe of Experts on privacy and data protection, but the decision is delayed to avoid duplication of effort with the OECD (cf. CM/Del/Concl(76)254, p. 50).
• 🇪🇺 The European Commission publishes A four-year programme for the development of informatics in the Community. Volume I: objectives and summary of the programme, legal texts (COM (76) 524 final Vol. I (see p. 8), 29 October 1976).
• 🇫🇷 The French Conseil d’état asserts that when the police unduly share information about persons who is supposed to constitute a risk due to their mental health, individuals can request access to such data & eventually the data’s rectification & erasure.

• 🇸🇪 The New Scientist reports about the reactions following the Readers’ Digest’s announcement of the creation of a mailing list that would have presumably listed all of the households in Sweden, reactions which included 7000 data access requests submitted in one single week (‘Swedes gag on Readers’ Digest data bank’, New Scientist, 18 March 1976).
• 🇺🇸 The 1st National Institute on ‘Emerging Legal Issues & Impacts of Electronic Data Processing” is organised in New York City by the American Bar Association, at the Waldorf Astoria (13-14 May). Ruth M. Davis discusses ‘Implications of Privacy Legislation on the Use of Computer Technology in Business’, Willis H. Ware presents the Privacy Protection Study Commission. See the announcement in Jurimetrics Journal 16 (Spring 1976), 137-141.

• 🇬🇧 Sir Kenneth Younger, who had been asked to chair a Committee to inquire into the effect of the use of computers on privacy, dies in May 1976. Sir Norman Lindop was appointed to replace him.
• 🇦🇺 On 9 April 1976 is signed a reference to the Australian Law Reform Commission marking the start of a National Privacy Inquiry (read more here). In November 1976 the University of New South Wales organises a Symposium on Privacy. M. D. Kirby delivers a speech on ‘Privacy and the law‘ (on 4 November).

Literature

• Altman, Irwin (1976), ‘A Conceptual Analysis’, Environment and Behavior, 8(1), 7-29.
• Bigelow, Robert P. (1976), The Privacy Act of 1974, Informatica e diritto, fasc. 3, 341-349.
• ‘Computers and Privacy‘ (1976), The British Medical Journal, 1(6003), 178–179.
• Dalenius, Tore and Anders Klevmarken (eds.) (1976), Proceedings of a Symposium on Personal Integrity and the Need for Data in the Social Sciences. Hässelby slott, Stockholm, March 15–17, 1976, Stockholm: Swedish Council for Social Science Research.
• Davies, Ruth M. (1976), ‘Implications of privacy legislation on the use of computer technology in business‘, Jurimetrics Journal, 17(1), 95–110.
• Douglas, A. S. (1976), ‘The UK privacy White Paper 1975‘, In Proceedings of the June 7-10, 1976, National Computer Conference and Exposition, 33-38.
• Eberle, Carl-Eugen, et al. (1976), ADV und Recht : Einf. in d. Rechtsinformatik u.d. Recht d. Informationsverarbeitung, Schweitzer.
• Goldstein, Robert C. (1976), ‘A methodology for evaluating alternative technical and information management approaches to privacy requirements‘, Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
• Heredero Higueras, Manuel (1976), ‘Informática y libertad: La respuesta de los juristas a un problema de nuestro tiempo‘, Documentación Administrativa.
• Larsen, Kent S. (ed.) (1976), Privacy, a public concern: A resource document based on the proceedings of a Seminar on Privacy, sponsored by the Domestic Council Committee on the Right of Privacy and the Council of State Governments.
• Lautsch, John C. (1976), ‘A Digest of State Legislation Relating to Computer Technology‘, Jurimetrics Journal17(1), 39–94.
• Legislative history of the Privacy Act of 1974, S. 3418 (Public Law 93-579) source book on privacy, September 1976.
• Øyen, Ørjar (1976), ‘Social research and the protection of privacy: A review of the Norwegian development‘, Acta Sociologica 19(3), 249-262.
• Policy issues in data protection and privacy: Concepts and perspectives – Proceedings of the OECD seminar 24th to 26th June 1974, OECD, 1976.
• Sieghart, Paul (1976), Privacy and computers, Latimer.
• Steinmüller, Wilhelm (1976), ‘Legal problems of computer networks: A methodological survey‘, Computer Networks 3(3), 187-198.
• Swan, Peter N. (1976), ‘Privacy and Record Keeping: Remedies for the Misuse of Accurate Information‘, North Carolina Law Review 54(4), 585-640.
• Towe, Thomas E. (1976), ‘A Growing Awareness of Privacy in America’, Montana Law Review 37(1), 39-90.
• Westin, Alan F. (1976), Computers, health records, and citizen rights, sponsored by the Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology, National Bureau of Standards (NBS).

In the media

• ‘Newsmen Wary on Privacy Law‘, The New York Times, 23 January 1976.
• Crewdson, John M., ‘Levi to Order Notification Of Citizens F.B.I. Harried‘, The New York Times, 31 March 1976.

• ‘De computers zijn even noodzakelijk als gevaarlijk: Wat gebeurt er met onze privé-gegevens?’, NRC Handelsblad, 3 April 1976.
• ‘Datenschutz: »1984 liegt nicht mehr fern«’, Der Spiegel, 24/1976, 6 June 1976.
• ‘Computer bill draws praise‘, Press, 30 July 1976, 4.
• ‘Prof Urges Strong Consumer Safeguards‘, Santa Cruz Sentinel, 27 October 1976, 20.

Other

Films

• 🎬 All the President’s Men (1976), US film by Alan J. Pakula.

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