Key developments
- 🇪🇺 The European Commission publishes the Communication ‘Europe at the Forefront of the Global Information Society: Rolling Action Plan‘ (COM(96) 607 final, 27.11.1996)
- The Article 29 Working Party convenes for the first time ever on 17 January 1996.
Also this year
- 🇮🇹 Italy adopts the Legge n. 675 del 31 dicembre 1996 – Tutela delle persone e di altri soggetti rispetto al trattamento dei dati personali.
- The 1996 Spring conference of Privacy and Data Protection Commissioners is held in Manchester in April. The International conference takes place in Ottawa in September.
Literature
- Bainbridge, David (1996), EC Data Protection Directive, Butterworths.
- Barber, Barry, Alison Treacher, and C. P. Louwerse (eds.) (1996), Towards Security in Medical Telematics – Legal and Technical Aspects. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, IOS Press 1996, feat. notably N. Platten ‘The State of the European Union Directive on Data Protection presented on 11th July 1994’ (79-80).
- Bergfeld, J. P. (1996), ‘The impact of the EC Data Protection Directive on Dutch Data Protection Law’, The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT), 1.
- Blume, Peter (1996), ‘Information Infrastructure and Data Protection. The Danish Perspective‘, International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 4(1), 1-18.
- Blume, Peter (1996), ‘Implementation of the European Data Protection Directive: The View from Denmark‘, The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT), 1.
- Ekmekdjian, Miguel Ángel and Calogero Pizzolo (1996), Hábeas data: El derecho a la intimidad frente a la revolución informática, Depalma.
- Hassemer, Winfried (1996), ‘Über die absehbare Zukunft des Datenschutzes‘, Kritische Justiz 29(1), 99-105.
- Lloyd, Ian (1996), ‘An outline of the European Data Protection Directive, 1996‘, Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT), 1.
- Louveaux, Sophie (1996), ‘Comments on the EU Data Protection Directive-The Belgian Perspective‘, Journal of Information Law and Technology (JILT), 2.
- Seipel, P. (1996), ‘Comments on the EC Data Protection Directive: The View from Sweden’, The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT) (1996), 1.
- Simitis, Spiros (1996), ‘Virtuelle Präsenz und Spurenlosigkeit — Ein neues Datenschutzkonzept‘, Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft (KritV) 79.1, 99-108.
- Wiebe, Andrea (1996), ‘Harmonisation of Data Protection Law in Europe: Conference Report‘, The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT), 3.
In the media
- ‘Surveiller Internet? Dialogue entre le flic et le cryptographe‘, Le Nouveau Quotidien, 16 February 1996, 20.
Gloria González Fuster 