Gloria González Fuster

Key developments

• 🇺🇾 Uruguay ratifies Council of Europe’s Convention 108, becoming the first non-European party to the Convention.

Also this year

• The OECD Guidelines Governing the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data are revised and amended. Read the Explanatory Memoranda (October 2013), and the Report on the implementation of the OECD Privacy Guidelines (November 2013).
• 🇪🇺 At the European Parliament, the Civil Liberties Committee adopts its position on the data protection reform on 21 October 2013.
• ⚖️ The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decides in Worten (C‑342/12), on 30 May 2013, and in Schwarz (C‑291/12), on 17 October 2013.
• The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) publishes ‘Additional EDPS Comments of on the Data Protection Reform Package‘ (15 March 2013).
• 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda adopt the Data Protection Act 2013.

Literature

• Atten, Michel, et Liz Carey Libbrecht (2013), ‘What Databases Do to Privacy: The Emergence of a Public Issue in 1960s America‘, Réseaux, 178-179(2-3), 21-53.
• Berlinghoff, Marcel (2013), ‘Computerisierung und Privatheit – Historische Perspektiven‘, APUZ, 3 April 2013.
• ‘Berlin Group’ (20130, International Documents on Data Protection in Telecommunications and Media 1983 – 2013.
• Cohen, Julie E. (2013), ‘What Privacy Is For‘, Harvard Law Review, 126(7), 1904-1933.
• EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (2013), Access to data protection remedies in EU Member States.
• González Fuster, Gloria, and Serge Gutwirth (2013), ‘Opening up personal data protection: A conceptual controversy‘, Computer Law & Security Review 29.5, 531-539.

• Hansen, Marit (2013) , ‘Data protection by default in identity-related applications’, in Policies and Research in Identity Management: Third IFIP WG 11.6 Working Conference, IDMAN 2013, London, UK, April 8-9, 2013. Proceedings 3, Springer, 4-17.
• Hernández López, José Miguel (2013), El Derecho a la protección de datos personales en la doctrina del Tribunal Constitucional, Aranzadi.
• Holvast, Jan (2013), De Volkstelling van 1971: Verslag van de eerste brede maatschappelijke discussie over aantasting van privacy, Uitgeverij Paris.
• Ismail, Noriswadi ad Edwin Lee Yong Cieh (eds.) (2013), Beyond Data Protection: Strategic Case Studies and Practical Guidance, Springer.
• Kokott, Juliane and Christoph Sobotta (2013), ‘The distinction between privacy and data protection in the jurisprudence of the CJEU and the ECtHR‘, International Data Privacy Law, 3(4), 222–228.
• Kosta, Eleni (2013), Consent in European data protection law, Martinus Nijhoff.
• Christopher Kuner (2013), Transborder Data Flows and Data Privacy Law, Oxford University Press.
• Rodríguez Marcano, Eligio Rafael (2013), El derecho a la autodeterminación informativa en Venezuela, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Facultad de Derecho, Departamento de Derecho Político.
• Rost, Martin (2013), ‘Zur Soziologie des Datenschutzes’, Datenschutz und Datensicherheit-DuD 37(2), 85-91.
• Singer, Natasha (2013), ‘Data Protection Laws, an Ocean Apart‘, The New York Times, 2 February 2013.
• Tzanou, Maria (2013), ‘Data protection as a fundamental right next to privacy? ‘Reconstructing’ a not so new right‘, International Data Privacy Law, 3(2), May 2013, 88–99.
• Valero Torrijos, Julián (ed.) (2013), La protección de los datos personales en Internet ante la innovación tecnológica: Riesgos, amenazas y respuestas desde la perspectiva jurídica, Aranzadi.
• Van Laer, Arthe (2013), ‘Transmission électronique des données : la Communauté européenne face au Big Brother américain (1976-1981)‘ in Entreprises de haute technologie, État et souveraineté depuis 1945: Colloque des 8 et 9 février 2010, Paris: Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique.
• Viola de Azevedo Cunha, Mario (2013), Market Integration Through Data Protection: An Analysis of the Insurance and Financial Industries in the EU, Springer.

Films

• 🎬 Hito Steyerl, How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, (2013). Watch it here.

In the media

• O’ Brien, Kevin J., ‘Europe to Consider Creating Data Protection Regulator‘, The New York Times, 9 January 2023.
• O’ Brien, Kevin J., ‘Ministers Express Doubts on Expanding Data Protection Laws‘, The New York Times, 18 January 2023.
• ‘Edward Snowden documents show NSA broke privacy rules‘, BBC News, 16 August 2013.

In memoriam

• Wilhelm Steinmüller (1 February 2013). Watch this interview. Read also: Garstka, Hansjürgen (2014), ‘Wilhelm Steinmüller – Denken in Systemen als Lebensinhalt‘, Wovon–für wen–wozu Systemdenken wider die Diktatur der Daten, 13-29; and Weichert, Thilo (2013), ‘Nachruf auf den Datenschutzpionier Wilhelm Steinmüller’, Humanistische Union, 201/202, 07/2013, 169-171.

• Willis Ware (31 August 1920 – 22 November 2013): computer scientist who chaired the Committee that authored the 1973 HEW Report ‘Records, Computers & the Rights of Citizens’, key for the 1974 Privacy Act. He worked under John Von Neumann in Princeton, and joined the Rand Corporation in 1952. Read this ‘Oral history interview with Willis Ware‘. In September 1975 Datamation wrote about him and his leadership.

• Alan F. Westin (11 October 1929 – 19 February 2013). Read: ‘Alan F. Westin, Who Transformed Privacy Debate Before the Web Era, Dies at 83‘ (The New York Times, Margalit Fox, 22 February 2013)

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