Other relevant articles (and documents) on the history of data protection law (in addition to the online literature listed here):

• Warren, Samuel D., and Louis D. Brandeis, ‘Right to privacy‘, Harv. L. Rev. 4, p. 193, 1890.
• Michael, Donald N., ‘Speculations on the Relation of the Computer to Individual Freedom and the Right to Privacy‘, George Washington Law Review, 33, no. 1, pp. 270-286, 1964.
• Baran, Paul, Communications, Computers and People, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, 1965.
• Edward V. Long, ‘The Right to Privacy: The Case against the Government‘, Saint Louis University Law Journal 10, no. 1, pp. 1-29, 1965.
• Reich, Charles A., ‘Individual rights and social welfare: The emerging legal issues‘, Yale Law Journal, 74, p. 1245, 1965.
• Ruebhausen, Oscar M. and Orville G. Brim Jr., ‘Privacy and Behavorial Research‘, Columbia Law Review 65, no. 7, pp. 1184-1211, November 1965.
• Downs, Anthony, ‘A Realistic Look at the Final Payoffs from Urban Data Systems‘, Public Administration Review 27, no. 3, pp. 204–10, 1967.
• ‘Privacy and Efficient Government: Proposals for a National Data Center‘, Harvard Law Review 82, no. 2, pp. 400–417, 1968.
• Carter, Luther J., ‘National Data Bank: its advocates try to erase” Big Brother” image‘, Science 163, no. 3863, pp. 160-162, 1969.
• Hoffman, Lance J., ‘Computers and privacy: A survey‘, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 1.2, pp. 85-103, 1969.
• Kaysen, Carl, et al., ‘Report of the Task Force on the Storage of and Access to Government Statistics‘, The American Statistician 23.3, pp. 11-19, 1969.
• Miller, Arthur R., ‘Personal Privacy in the Computer Age: The Challenge of a New Technology in an Information-Oriented Society‘, Michigan Law Review 67, pp. 1089-1246, April 1969.
• Farhi, Carol, ‘Computers – Data Banks and the Individual: Is the Problem Privacy‘, Israel Law Review, 5, no. 4, pp. 542-558, October 1970.
• 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.
• Beatty, John F., ‘Privacy and Computers: An Undefined Program‘, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, 7, no. 3, pp. 659-665, May 1972.
• Moore, P. G., ‘Security of the Census of Population‘, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General) 136, no. 4, pp. 583–96, 1973.
• Martin, Margaret E, ‘Statistical legislation and confidentiality issues‘, International Statistical Review/Revue Internationale de Statistique, pp. 265-281, 1974.
• Steinmüller, Wilhelm, ‘Automationsunterstützte Informationssysteme in Privaten und Öffentlichen Verwaltungen: Bruchstücke Einer Alternativen Theorie Des Datenzeitalters‘, Leviathan 3, no. 4, pp. 508–43, 1975.
• Altman, Irwin, ‘A Conceptual Analysis’, Environment and Behavior, 8(1), pp. 7-29, 1976.
• Davies, Ruth M., ‘Implications of privacy legislation on the use of computer technology in business‘, Jurimetrics Journal, 17(1), pp. 95–110, 1976.
• Lautsch, John C., ‘A digest of State legislation relating to computer technology‘, Jurimetrics Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 39–94, 1976.
• Øyen, Ørjar, ‘Social research and the protection of privacy: A review of the Norwegian development‘, Acta Sociologica 19(3), pp. 249-262, 1976.
• Firnberg, D., ‘Protecting privacy in the computer age‘, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Vol. 125, No. 5252, July 1977, pp. 431-443, 1977.
• Kimbel, Dieter, ‘Policy research for information activities: The OECD programme on information, computers and communications policy‘, Telecommunications Policy, Volume 1, Issue 5, pp. 367-373, 1977.
• Martin, Margaret E, ‘Statisticians, confidentiality, and privacy‘, American journal of public health 67, no. 2, pp. 165-167, 1977.
• Koltun, Philip, ‘Computers and the law: A course description‘, Jurimetrics 20, no. 1, pp. 85–101, 1979.
• Hondius, Frits W., ‘Computers: Data privacy: The European community grapples with protecting individual rights in the midst of rampant computer progress‘, IEEE Spectrum 17, no. 3, pp. 67-71, 1980.
• Roth, Alexander D., ‘Documents on data protection‘, International Legal Materials, vol. 19, no. 2, American Society of International Law, pp. 282–324, 1980.
• White, Peter, ‘Privacy — An international concern‘, International Library Review, 12:3, pp. 223-242, 1980.
• Evans, A. C., ‘European Data Protection Law‘, The American Journal of Comparative Law, 29, no. 4, pp. 571–82, 1981.
• Patrick, P. Howard, ‘Privacy restrictions on transnational data flows: A comparison of the Council of Europe draft Confvention and OECD Guidelines‘, Jurimetrics 21, no. 4, pp. 405–20, 1981.
• Zimmerman, J. A., ‘Transborder data flow: Problems with the Council of Europe Convention, or protecting states from protectionism‘ Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business, 4(2), 601-625, 1982.
• Bennett, Colin J., ‘Different processes, one result: The convergence of data protection policy in Europe and the United States‘, Governance 1, no. 4, pp. 415-441, 1988.
• Bing, Jon, ‘Reflections on a data protection policy for 1992‘, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology 5, no. 1, pp. 164-179, 1991.
• McSweeney, A. D., ‘A Select Bibliography of Books, Articles & Official Reports Relating to Privacy and Data Protection‘, Journal of Law and Information Science 3, no. 1, pp. 172-180, 1992.
• Carr, I., & Williams, K., ‘Electronic data interchange, data protection and the European Community‘, Journal of Law and Information Science, 5(1), pp. 24-34, 1994.
• Simitis, Spiros, ‘From the Market to the Polis: The EU Directive on the Protection of Personal Data‘, 80 Iowa L. Rev., 445, 1995.
• Dumortier, J., & Blas, D., ‘Some legal issues related to the implementation of the European Data Protection Directive in Belgium‘ International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 11(2), pp. 221-242, 1997.
• Estadella-Yuste, Olga, ‘Spain is on the road to implementing EU Directive 95/46‘, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 11(1), pp. 33-46, 1997.
• Hondius, Frits W., ‘Protecting Medical and Genetic Data‘, European Journal of Health Law, 4, 361-388, 1997.
• Saarenpaa, A., ‘Data protection: in pursuit of information, some background to, and implementations of, data protection in Finland‘, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 11(1), pp. 47-64, 1997.
• Poullet, Y., Louveaux, S., & Asinari, M., ‘Data protection and privacy in global networks: European approach‘, EDI Law Review, 8 (Issues and 3), pp. 147-196, 2001.
• Bing, Jon, ‘Computers and Law: Some beginnings (Computer und Recht–Die Anfänge)‘, it-Information Technology 49, no. 2, 71-82, 2007.
• Hornung, Gerrit and Christoph Schnabel, ‘Data protection in Germany I: The population census decision and the right to informational self-determination‘, Computer Law & Security Review, Volume 25,, Issue 1, pp. 84-88, 2009.
• Van Laer, Arthe, ‘Developing an EC Computer Policy, 1965–1974‘, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 32, no. 1, pp. 16-17, 2010.
• Teboho Ansorge, Josef, ‘Digital Power in World Politics: Databases, Panopticons and Erwin Cuntz‘, Millennium 40, no. 1, pp. 65–8, 2011.
• Loughnane, Christopher, and William Aspray, ‘Rethinking the call for a US national data center in the 1960s: Privacy, social science research, and data fragmentation viewed from the perspective of contemporary archival theory‘, Information & Culture 53, no. 2, pp. 203-242, 2018.

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Additional reading suggestions:

• General online resources.
• Newspapers and media items.
• Books.