Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hsdndev!cmcl2!panix!simona From: simona@panix.uucp (Simona Nass) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Database Registration and privacy acts Message-ID: <1991May17.214421.15099@panix.uucp> Date: 17 May 91 21:44:21 GMT References: <1991May14.040427.10453@looking.on.ca> Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY Lines: 24 In article rick@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Rick Innis) writes: >In article <1991May14.040427.10453@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: > > There have been a number of interesting points raised recently in > news.admin and comp.risks that EFF hangers-on might want to look at. > They involve some British laws about databases. > >The law in question is the Data Protection Act. This was a piece of >legislation enacted to fulfill the requirements of a European Commission >Directive on access to and security of data - in fact all data, not merely >that stored on computer. > >EC Directives state a number of requirements which member states of the EEC >are required to enact in law. [REST DELETED] I also understand that if a non-member state, such as the U.S.A., is doing business within the territory of a member state, the non-member state must comply with the Directives of the member state to an "adequate" extent. Anyone have more info? I think the Economist recently had an article about this aspect, but I haven't tracked it down. -S. -- ( rutgers!cmcl2!panix!simona, uunet!jyacc!david, simona@panix.uucp )