Gloria González Fuster

Key developments

• 🇪🇺 The European Commission publishes its Opinion on the European Parliament’s amendments to the Council’s common position regarding the proposal for a European Parliament and Council Directive concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the telecommunications sector, in particular in the integrated services digital network (ISDN) and in the public digital mobile networks, amending the proposal of the Commission, COM(97) 94 final, 5.3.1997.

• 🇺🇸 On 22 July 1997 the White House releases the report A Framework for Global Electronic Commerce, in the context of the Clinton’s administration promotion of the Internet as information highway.

Also this year

• 🇵🇱 Poland adopts its first data protection law, the Act of 29 August 1997 on the Protection of Personal Data.
• 🇬🇧 In the United Kingdom (UK), the Government publishes Data protection : the Government’s proposals (CM 3725), a paper describing its proposals for implementing the Data Protection Directive.
• The Article 29 Working Party publishes:
  • Its first ever annual report (WP3), covering 1996.
  • First orientations on Transfers of Personal Data to Third Countries – Possible Ways Forward in Assessing Adequacy, 26 June 1997.
• ⚖️ The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decides in Z v Finland, on 25 February 1997, and in MS v Sweden, on 25 August 1997.
• 🇧🇪 The XIX International Conference of Privacy and Data Protection Commissioners takes place in Brussels, from 17 to 19 September 1997. Proceedings, including interventions by F. Rigaux and others, were printed (with no reference to publisher).

Literature

• Amery, Chris (1997), ‘The European Union Data Protection Directive -Where are we? How did we get here? What next?‘, Information Security Technical Report 2(1), 29-37.
• Bennett, Colin J. and Charles D. Raab (1997), ‘The Adequacy of Privacy: The European Union Data Protection Directive and the North American Response’, The Information Society, 13(3) 245-264.
• Blume, Peter (1997), ‘The Data Protection Directive and Danish Law‘, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology 11(1), 65-78.
• Kahin, Brian and Charles Nesson (eds.) (1997), Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure,
• Castillo Jiménez, Cinta, Vittorio Frosini: aportación al estudio de las relaciones entre las nuevas tecnologías de la información y el derecho, Universidad de Sevilla, Departamento de Filosofía del Derecho, 1997.
• Chalton, Simon (1997), ‘The Transportation into UK Law of EU Directive 95/46/EC (the Data Protection Directive)’, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology 11(1), 25-32.
• Dumortier, J., & Blas, D. (1997), ‘Some legal issues related to the implementation of the European Data Protection Directive in Belgium‘, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 11(2), pp. 221-242.
• Duttge, Gunnar (1997), ‘Recht auf Datenschutz: Ein Beitrag zur Interpretation der Grundrechtlichen Schutzbereiche’, Der Staat 36(2) 281-308.
• Estadella-Yuste, Olga (1997), ‘Spain is on the road to implementing EU Directive 95/46‘, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 11(1), 33-46.
• Hondius, Frits W. (1997), ‘Protecting Medical and Genetic Data‘, European Journal of Health Law, 4, 361-388.
• Myers, Jennifer M. (1997), ‘Creating Data Protection Legislation in the United States: An Examination of Current Legislation in the European Union, Spain, and the United States’, Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 29(1), 109-148.
• Raab, Charles D. (1997), ‘Co-Producing Data Protection‘, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology 11(1), 11-24.
• Saarenpaa, A. (1997), ‘Data protection: in pursuit of information, some background to, and implementations of, data protection in Finland‘, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 11(1), 47-64.
• Ustaran, Eduardo (1997), ‘Data Protection Regulation: The Challenge Ahead‘, Journal of Information Law & Technology 1997, 3.
• White, Alison (1997), ‘Control of transborder data flow: reactions to the european data protection Directive‘, International Journal of Law and Information Technology 5(2), 230-247.

Music

• 🎵 The Firm ‘Phone tap’ (from The Album, Columbia, 1997)

In the media

• Simons, Marlise, ‘It’s That Feeling of Being Watched‘, The New York Times, 21 February 1997.
• Andrews, Edmund L., ‘Europeans Reject U.S. Plan On Electronic Cryptography’, The New York Times, 9 October 1997.

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