Key developments
- 🇩🇪 On 15 December 1983 the German Federal Constitutional Court establishes the existence of a fundamental right to informational self-determination.
Music
- The Police ‘Every breath you take’ (Synchronicity, A&M Records, 1983).
Also this year
- 🇦🇺 The Australian Law Reform Commission publishes Privacy (Report no. 22), comprising 2 parts and a summary, for a total of more than 1000 pages. Background information here.
- 🇺🇸 ‘Oversight of the Privacy Act of 1974‘: Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, 7 and 8 June 1983.
- 🇬🇧 The House of Lords discusses a Data Protection Bill.
- 🇸🇲 San Marino adopts the Legge 1° marzo 1983, n.27 – Disciplina raccolta, elaborazione e uso di dati personali nel settore dell’informatica.
- The 5th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners takes place in Stockholm (Sweden).
Literature
- Beling, Craig T. (1983), ‘Transborder data flows: International privacy protection and the free flow of information‘, Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 6(2), 591-624.
- Branscomb, Anne W. (1983), ‘Global Governance of Global Networks: A Survey of Transborder Data Flow in Transition’, Vanderbilt Law Review, 36(4), 985-1044.
- Coombe Jr., George W. and Susan L. Kirk (1983), ‘Privacy, Dada Protection, and Transborder Data Flow: A Corporate Response to International Expectations’, Business Lawyer (ABA) 39(1), 33-66.
- Fak, V. A. (ed.) (1983), SECURITY, IFIP/Sec’83: Proceedings of the First Security Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 16-19 May, I983, North-Holland Publishing Co,, Amsterdam.
- Hardy Jr, I. Trotter (1983), ‘Transborder Data Flow: An Overview and Critique of Recent Concerns‘, Rutgers Computer & Tech. Law Journal 9, 247-264.
- OECD (1983), An Exploration of legal issues in information and communication technologies, Information Computer Communication Policy (ICCP) n° 8.
- Parent, William A. (1983), ‘Recent work on the concept of privacy‘, American Philosophical Quarterly 20(4), 341-355.
- Privacy en persoonsregistraties, Justitiële verkenningen 1983/08 (1983).
- Riccardi, J. L. (1983), ‘The German Federal Data Protection Act of 1977: Protecting the Right to Privacy?‘, Boston College International & Comparative Law Review 6(1), 243-271.
- Robinson, Peter (1983), ‘TDF: The hardy perennial‘, Telecommunications Policy 7.4, 271-276.
- Sauvant, Karl P. (1983), ‘Transborder data flows and the developing countries’, International Organization 37(2), 359-371.
- Soma, John T., and Richard A. Wehmhoefer (1983), ‘A Legal and Technical Assessment of the Effect of Computers on Privacy’, Denver Law Journal 60, 449-483.
- Thom, J. A., and P. G. Thorne (1983), ‘Privacy Legislation and the Right of Access’, The Australian Computer Journal 15(04), 145-150.
- Wright, Janice (1983), ‘The Protection of Corporate Privacy’, International Business Lawyer 11(4), 119-122.
- Yarn, Douglas (1983), ‘The Development of Canadian Law on TransBorder Data Flow’, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, 13(3), 825-856
In the media
- Sanger, David E. ‘Waging a Trade War over Data‘, The New York Times, 13 March 1983.
- Markham, James M., ‘Libertarians Win Round Over a Bonn Census‘, The New York Times, 14 April 1983.
- Kirchner, Jake, ‘U.S. Firms Seen Lax in Data Privacy’, Computerworld, 9 May 1983.
- ‘La informática, sometida a la ley’, Mediterráneo, Año II N. XLV, 18 August 1983.
- ‘»Ohne Drohgebärde, ohne Angst«‘, Der Spiegel, 16 April 1983.
- Durnham, David, ‘Loophole in Law Raises Concern About Privacy in Computer Age‘, The New York Times, 19 December 1983.
Gloria González Fuster 