Abstract
In addition to the European Community and the OECD, organizations like the United Nations (UN) are considering the adoption of international data protection guidelines as a natural extension of the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Article 17 of this Covenant directly applies to the issue of data protection:
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No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his honour and reputation.
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Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Time and space — time to be alone, space to move about — these may well be the scarcities of tomorrow.
— Edwin Way Teale, Autumn Across America
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Transnational Data and Communications Report, November 1990, p. 11, 24.
United Nations Economic and Social Council, Commission on Human Rights, Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, 38th Session, E/CN.4/Sub. 2/1985/21.
Coalition of Services Industries, Inc., Company Operations in Developing Countries, Washington, DC: Coalition of Services Industries, Inc., April 1989.
Ibid., p. 5.
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Madsen, W. (1992). International Efforts and Proposals for Data Protection in the 21st Century. In: Handbook of Personal Data Protection. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12806-8_9
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