Separate federal and state laws regulate financial, medical, library and other records. In contrast, some European nations have had data protection laws of general applicability for almost two decades, and the European Union recently issued a directive requiring each member state to designate a public authority to oversee the protection of personal data. Since the directive is concerned with the processing of personal data, as opposed to ownership or intellectual property rights, its impact on U.S. business in Europe is currently a hot topic in this area of the law. The following references are not intended to be exhaustive, but rather to illustrate the range and variety of the growing literature in this emerging field. Copyright Marie Blosh, 1997.
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The Right to Privacy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. A comparative policy analysis with a selective bibliography. The Computer Privacy Handbook. Peachpit Press, 1995.