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Transborder Data Flow: Separating The Privacy Interests Of Individuals And Corporations, Garry S. Grossman
Transborder Data Flow: Separating The Privacy Interests Of Individuals And Corporations, Garry S. Grossman
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
The merger of computer and communications technologies in the past two decades has revolutionized information processing throughout the world. The most recent telecommunications advances possible direct international transfers of sensitive personal data via computer-satellite links. Computerized data bases containing commercial information identifying citizens of one country are now routinely transferred to and stored in another, often without the knowledge of the individuals identified in the data. Numerous European countries have enacted data protection legislation with the avowed intent to protect their citizens from the improper use of personal information that is transferred extranationally. These data protection laws prohibit the export …
Transborder Data Flow: Problems With The Council Of Europe Convention, Or Protecting States From Protectionism, Jane A. Zimmerman
Transborder Data Flow: Problems With The Council Of Europe Convention, Or Protecting States From Protectionism, Jane A. Zimmerman
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
This comment will discuss the current status of national data protection laws and their effect on the conflict between the individual interest in retaining personal privacy and the business interest in preserving the free flow of information. Such discussion will highlight the consequences of the proposed Council of Europe Convention's regulation of personal data. A brief look at the history f the information industry, as well as the costs of and justifications for transborder data flow, will serve to establish a framework for the issues and controversies which the Convention addresses. The comment will also focus on specific proviisons of …