Volume 5 Issue 1

Electronic Data Interchange, Data Protection and the European Community*

1 Lecturer in Law, University of Exeter

2 Lecturer in Law, University of College of Wales, Aberystwyth

Indira Mahalingam Carr (1) and Katherine Williams (2)


Abstract

In this article the authors examine the various directives issued by the European Community to protect the privacy of individuals, both natural and artificial where personal, sensitive or confidential information is transmitted by electronic interchange.


* This article is based in parts on 'Bytes into Computer Law', Chapter 1 of Computers and Law Carr, Indira and Williams, Katherine (eds.) (1994) Oxford: Intellect Books.

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