[79279] in Cypherpunks
Re: Data Privacy Laws
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ulf =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
Tue Apr 29 22:22:40 1997
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 03:37:18 +0200 (GMT+0200)
In-Reply-To: <v03007800af8b4d0ada5e@[207.167.93.63]> from "Tim May" at Apr 28, 97 11:11:35 pm
From: 3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
Reply-To: 3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
> > According to the Registrar's office, anyone who is processing personal
> > information, even as little as names and addresses received over the
> > Internet, could find themselves facing an unlimited fine in the higher
> > courts if they do not register with the Data Protection Registrar.
> This is well known to most of us. Still, we periodically get "privacy
> advocates" here on this list singing the praises of the various European
> "data privacy laws" and urging other nations to adopt the same sorts of
> laws.
It is worth noting that the "Data Privacy Commissioners" in Germany
(equivalent to the British Data Protection Registrar) are beginning to
advocate technologies such as anonymous e-cash, pre-paid chipcards,
pseudonyms, and of course encryption, rather than more laws.
