Key developments
- 🇪🇺 Resolution of the European Parliament of 9 March 1982 on the protection of the rights of the individual in the face of technical developments in data processing (No C 87/39, 5.4.1982) states that rules on the protection of personal data are ‘feasible and necessary for the Community’, and that ‘consideration should be given to a draft Directive, if the Council of Europe Convention for the protection of individuals with regard to automatic processing of personal data proves inadequate‘. The European Parliament also explicitly states ‘that thought should be given to investigating the possibility and desirability of expressly incorporating the right to the protection of personal data as a human right or fundamental freedom in the text of the European Convention for the protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in the form of a sixth protocol’.
Also this year
- 🇳🇿 On 18 November 1982, a suicide bomb attack was made against a facility housing the main computer system of the New Zealand Police, Courts, Ministry of Transport and other law enforcement agencies, in Wanganui. The author was Neil Roberts, to whom is devoted this page of the Anarchist History of New Zealand.
- 🇪🇺 The European Commission publishes ‘Social change and technology in Europe’, Information Bulletin nr 6, May 1982 (2nd edition: November 1982).
- The 4th International Conference on Data Protection convenes in London (see).
Literature
- Feldman, Mark B. and David R. Garcia (1982), ‘National Regulation of Transborder Data Flows’, North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation, 7(1) (1981-1982), 1-26
- Freedman, Warren (1982), ‘The right of privacy in the age of computer data and processing‘, Tex. Tech L. Rev. 13, 1361-1400.
- Frosini, Vittorio (1982), ‘Bancos de datos y tutela de la persona‘, Revista de estudios políticos 30, 21-40.
- Grossman, Garry S. (1982), ‘Transborder data flow: Separating the privacy interests of individuals and corporations‘, Northwestern Journal International Law & Business. 4(1), 1-36.
- Lentzen, Évelyne (1982), ‘Fichiers nominatifs et vie privée‘, Courrier hebdomadaire du CRISP, vol. 948-949(3-4) 1-59.
- Stadler, Gerhard and Thomas Herzog (1982), ‘Data Protection: International Trends and the Austrian Example‘, IIASA Collaborative Paper, CP-82-022.
- Zehnder, Carl August (ed.) (1982), Datenschutz : Probleme, Beispiele, Grundsätze, Erfahrungen, Aspekte, Orell Füssli.
- Zimmerman, Jane A. (1982), ‘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.
Music
- 🎵 Hüsker Dü ‘Data control’ (from Land Speed Record, SST Records, 1982), featuring the lyrics ‘They know everything about you, Keeping secrets is too hard, Your life is all recorded for you, In holes punched in computer cards, Data Control (digital readout), Data Control (perforated feed-out), Data Control (microfilm files), Data Control (1984 style)’.
- 🎵 Originalton ‘Datenschutz’ (from Mein Leben ist ein Werbespot, Neue Welt Schallplatten, 1982)
In the media
- ‘Big Brother’s Law: The British Government seems indifferent to its electors· needs for protection from data banks‘, Nature 296(22), 356.
- Gautier, Frits (1982), ‘Data protection‘, Nature 297(3), 356.
- ‘Privacy, and the computer‘, Press, 26 January 1982, 21.
- ‘Safeguards for computer use‘, Press, 28 January 1982.
- Chorlton, Penny, ‘Secret radio eavesdropping ‘made operators deaf‘, The Guardian, 2 February 1982.
More
- Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) (1982), 3ème rapport d’activité 15 octobre 1981-15 octobre 1982.
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