Data Protection and Privacy: Comparative Policies

摘要

The primary purpose of the research report is to produce information and ideas that are relevant to a study of Federal Government Information Technology being carried out by the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress. The emphasis is on issues of direct relevance to the OTA study of United States federal government personal information practices. The includes available data on such pressing concerns as computer matching, computer profiling, and the use of the Personal Identification Number. The most important single issue treated in the research report is the process of implementation of data protection in the relevant countries, since, in the author's judgment, implementation is the single greatest deficiency in American federal data protection policies and practices.