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Safe Harbor in Cyberspace?

Do you want your personal data given to international companies that have very lax privacy protection standards? In this Infoworld article, the issue of digital data security in Europe is compared to that in the U.S.. The U.S. companies base much of their use of personal data on the U.S. safe harbor principal, a concept that is as formative as it sounds. European Union rules are stricter and offer more substantial amounts of defined privacy rights to individuals. The article supplies information about how the two sides treat their people's data, as well as why it is important for the U.S. to offer measures of privacy protection that will be accepted by the international community. If data is the product of the future, as many have stated, then this article does a wonderful job of prompting thoughts on how this "product" will be transmitted between trading partners.

Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:24:20 -0800