Key developments
- 🇺🇳 Special Rapporteur Louis Joinet publishes his Final Report on the Guidelines for the regulation of computered personal data files.
- 🇧🇷 The Constitution of Brazil establishes the ‘habeas data’, that is, a mechanism allowing access to personal information in public databases, as well as the rectification of such information.
Also this year
- 🇳🇱 The Netherlands adopt their first data protection law (here in an English translation for the Council of Europe, via CIPIL).
- 🇪🇺 Commission of the European Communities, Social Europe: The Computerization of Public Administration — Supplement 4/88, 1988.
- The 10th International Conference of Privacy and Data Protection Commissioners takes place in Oslo (Norway); see the agenda, including a session on ‘AIDS and data protection’.
Literature
- Allen, Anita L. (1988), Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society, Rowman & Littlefield.
- CELIM Conference, Freedom of data flows and EEC law: Proceedings of 2nd CELIM conference 1987, Brussels.
- Choldin, Harvey M. (1988), ‘Government statistics: The conflict between research and privacy‘, Demography 25, 145–154.
- Vitalis, André (1988), Informatique, pouvoir et libertés (2e éd.), préf. de Jacques Ellul, Economica.
- Bennett, Colin J. (1988), ‘Different processes, one result: The convergence of data protection policy in Europe and the United States‘, Governance 1(4), 415-441.
In the media
- ‘Privacy of data to be ensured‘, Press, 13 January 1988, 4.
- ‘Private business…’, Press, 15 January 1988, 16.
Gloria González Fuster 