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Interview with Prof. Spiros Simitis

See Spanish version here .

1) Germany is linked to the early history of data protection with the fist statute enacted in the Land of Hesse. Can you describe us briefly how it all started?

The nineteen-sixties were the years in which the attention was increasingly drawn to computers. The magic word was “cybernetics”. Especially Governments expected to be able

Interview with Chris Hoofnagle

Chris Jay Hoofnagle is a privacy expert and lawyer admitted to practice law in California and DC. Currently, he is non-residential fellow at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society and a consultant on privacy litigation. Until recently he worked at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, where he was in charge of the organization of EPIC West Coast Office. He had testified before Congress, the California Legislature, and before the Judicial Conference of the United States on various privacy issues. His academic articles on the First Amendment and privacy are online at the SSRN web site.