LAW-LIBers, FYI (thought you might be interested in this as well - note
that some related works (listed at http://www.epic.org/bookstore/) are
_The Privacy Law Sourcebook: United States Law, International Law, and
Recent Developments_ and _Cryptography and Liberty: An International
Survey of Cryptography Policy_). Ciao, Lyo.
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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 14:04:54 -0600 (CST)
From: Lyonette Louis-Jacques <llou@midway.uchicago.edu>
To: Foreign & International Legal Research <int-law@listhost.ciesin.org>
Subject: "Privacy and Human Rights: An International Survey" (report)
I found the following reference from the "Bytes-in-Brief" newsletter
(Issue 17, November 1998) at http://www.nelsonwolfe.com/current_bytes.htm:
"The Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC), an international coalition
of civil rights groups, has released a report entitled "Privacy and
Human Rights: An International Survey of Privacy Laws and Practice."
The report, released on October 7th, was compiled after reviewing the laws
and practices of 50 countries. GILC states that nearly all industrialized
countries have either adopted or are in the process of adopting
comprehensive privacy laws. A copy of the report may be found at
http://www.gilc.org/privacy/survey" [it's a really extensive document,
with footnote citations including URLs for where on the Internet you can
get copies of the laws, cases, documents, etc.; I'm guessing that it's at
least 200 pages long in paper format - Lyo]
An excerpt from the "Overview" of the "Privacy and Human Rights" report
follows:
"This report was written by Privacy International with a grant provided
by the Open Society Institute. The primary authors of this report are
David Banisar of the Electronic Privacy Information Center
<http://www.epic.org/> and Simon Davies of Privacy International
<http://www.privacy.org/pi/>. Additional research was provided by
Wayne Madsen, Michael Kassner, Ronnie Breckheimer, and Shauna Van
Dongen. Knowledgeable individuals from academia, government, human
rights groups and other fields were asked to submit reports and
information. Their reports were supplemented with information gathered
from Constitutions, laws, international and national government
documents, news reports, human rights reports and other sources."
Lyonette Louis-Jacques | llou@midway.uchicago.edu
Foreign and International Law | "Injustice anywhere is a
Librarian and Lecturer in Law | threat to justice everywhere"
University of Chicago Law School | - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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