Gloria González Fuster

Key developments

• 🇪🇺 On 11 March 1992 the European Parliament votes on the 1990 legislative proposals of the European Commission, supporting a series of amendments, which included granting to what was to become the Article 29 Working Party ‘investigative powers and effective powers of intervention’ analogous to those of data protection authorities.
• 🇪🇺 The European Commission publishes an Amended proposal for a Council Directive on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, COM(92) 422 final – SYN 287, 15.10.1992.

Also this year

• ⚖️ The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decides in Niemietz v Germany, on 16 December 1992.
• 🇧🇪 Belgium adopts its first data protection law on 8 December 1992.
• 🇪🇪 Estonia adopts a new Constitution, granting to all Estonian citizens of Estonia the right to access information about themselves held by government agencies and local authorities and in government and local authority archives; unless otherwise provided by law, citizens of foreign states and stateless persons in Estonia enjoy the same right.
• 🇪🇸 Spain adopts the Ley Orgánica 5/1992, de 29 de octubre, de regulación del tratamiento automatizado de los datos de carácter personal.
• 🇩🇪 In Germany, the Constitution of the Federal State of Saxony, of May 1992, establishes that everyone has the right to determine the collection, use and disclosure of their personal data.
• 🇨🇭 Switzerland adopts its Federal Law on data protection.
• The 14^th International Conference of Privacy and Data Protection Commissioners takes place in Sydney (Australia).

Literature

• Bennett, Colin J. (1992), Regulating Privacy: Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States, Cornell University Press.
• Blume, Peter (1992), ‘An EEC Policy for Data Protection‘, Computer L.J. 11, 399-440.
• Estadella-Yuste, Olga (1992), ‘The draft Directive of the European Community regarding the protection of personal data‘, International & Comparative Law Quarterly 41(1), 170-179.
• Gavison, Ruth (1992), ‘Feminism and the Public/Private Distinction‘, Stanford Law Review 45(1), 1-46.
• Hoeren, Thomas (1992), ‘Electronic Data Interchange: The Perspectives of Private International Law and Data Protection’, Law, Computers & Artificial Intelligence 1(3), 329-344.
• Laperrière, René, René Côté, and Goerges A. LeBel (1992), ‘The Transborder Flow of Personal Data from Canada: International and Comparative Law Issues’, Jurimetrics, 32(4) 547-570.
• McSweeney, A. D. (1992), ‘A Select Bibliography of Books, Articles & Official Reports Relating to Privacy and Data Protection‘, Journal of Law and Information Science 3(1), 172-180.
• Reidenberg, Joel R. (1992), ‘Privacy in the Information Economy: A Fortress or Frontier for Individual Rights?‘, Fed. Comm. L. J. 44, 195-243.
• Riegel, Reinhard (1992), Datenschutz bei den Sicherheitsbehörden, Heymann.
• Rigaux, François (1992), La vie privée : Une liberté parmi les autres ?, Larcier.
• Rosenbaum, Joseph I. (1992), ‘The European Commission’s Draft Directive on Data Protection‘, Jurimetrics J. 33, 1-12.
• Samar, Vincent J. (1992), The Right to Privacy: Gays, Lesbians, and the Constitution, Temple University Press.
• Schwartz, Paul (1992), ‘Data Processing and Government Administration: The Failure of the American Legal Response to the Computer‘, Hastings L.J. 43, 1321-1389.
• Tapper, Colin (1992), ‘New European Directions in Data Protection‘, Journal of Law, Information and Science, 3(1), 9.
• Trubow, George B. (1992), ‘European Harmonization of Data Protection Laws Threatens U.S. Participation in Trans Border Data Flow‘, Nw. J. Int’l L. & Bus. 13, 159-176.

Music

• 🎵 The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy ‘California Uber Alles‘ (from Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury, 4th & Broadway, 1992).

In the media

• Sloane, Leonard, ‘Just Who Can Raise the Shades and Peek Into Private Matters?’, The New York Times, 25 January 1992.
• ‘La CE veut interdire les mailings personnalisés‘, Le Nouveau Quotidien, 15 February 1992, 13.
• ‘Law on privacy: The Younger Committee lacked evidence of harm‘, Press, CXII, 32975, 22 July 1972, 14.
• Burnham, David, ‘Live Right or Else‘, The New York Times, 16 August 1992.
• ‘Lack of laws ‘depressing’: Privacy body is ‘poorly resourced’‘, The Canberra Times, 28 October 1992, 22.

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