However, behind the gleamming fa ade of the Teleservice Data Protection Act hides all the misery of legislation in the so-called cyberworld. There is a wide gap between the wording of the law and the real world. Consumer protection and data protectionist surverys show that, in practice, the law is seldom complied with. Implementation of the law requires apparently more than just it s printing in the statute book and the establishment of data protection authorities, which, due to their facilities, don t have the power of assertion. This brings me to the second pillar of the concept of data protection in the Internet.
Laws are always tightly-bound to countries and their boundaries.
However, the technology of the Internet is universal. This is the point at which we must begin our efforts. A data protection friendly design like that of Microsoft Browser can perhaps achieve more in practice than additional legal improvements. Therefore, we must search for means and ways to enforce the laws at the technology level. Legalise needs to be translated into bits and bytes.