Key developments

- 🇺🇸 The Information Infrastructure Task Force of the Department of Commerce publishes The National Information Infrastructure: Agenda for Action, in September 1993.
Also this year
- 🇪🇸 On 20 July 1993, the Spanish Constitutional Court rules that the Spanish Constitution read in light of Convention 108 establishes a right of access to personal data (judgment of 254/1993).
- The 15th International Conference of Privacy and Data Protection Commissioners takes place in Manchester (United Kingdom).

Literature
- Gandy, Oscar H. (1993), The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information – 2nd edition in 2021, Oxford University Press.
- Hoeren, Thomas (1993), ‘Information Management and Data Protection within the EC – The Amended EC Proposal for a Council Directive on Data Protection and Its Impact on German Industry‘, International Journal of Law and Information Technology 1(2), 129-143.
- Murillo de la Cueva, Pablo Lucas (1993), Informática y Protección de Datos Personales, Cuadernos y Debates 43, Centro de Estudios Constitucionales.
- Regan, Priscilla M. (1993), ‘Data integrity boards: Institutional innovation and congressional oversight’, Government Information Quarterly 10(4), 443-459.
- Regan, Priscilla M. (1993), ‘The globalization of privacy: Implications of recent changes in Europe‘, American Journal of Economics and Sociology 52(3), 257-274.
- Reidenberg, Joel R. (1993), ‘Data Protection in the Private Sector in the United States‘, International Yearbook of Law Computers and Technology 7, 25-58.
Music
- 🎵 Salt ‘N’ Pepa ‘None of your business’ (from Very Necessary, FFRR)
Other

- CNIL (1993), 14e rapport d’activité 1993.