Abstract
Although the original Data Protection Act in the UK was 1984, it was really only with the 1998 Act that data protection ever raised a murmur in the public consciousness.
Privacy is about our ‘right to be let alone’. (Louis Brandeis)
Protecting privacy is about protecting our sense of self.
Notes
Keynote speech presented at BILETA 2008, 23rd AnnualConference on ‘Law Shaping Technology; Technology Shaping the Law’, 27–28 March 2008, Glasgow Caledonian University (amended for publication).
Louis Brandeis in Olmstead v United States 1928 277 U.S. 438, 48. S. Ct. 564, 72 L. Ed. 944.
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