| Author: | Baker, S. |
| Title: | Europe's privacy cops |
| Journal: | Business Week
1998 : NOV 2, VOL. 3586:916, p. 20-22 |
| Index terms: | EUROPEAN UNION INTERNET ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Germany's data police, the Daten-schutz, considers itself a kind of anti-Gestapo. Where Hitler's secret police used files on German citizens as tools of terror and control, the mission of the Daten-schutz is to protect people's personal data. For this, inspectors trek from Berlin all the way to Sioux City, S.D., to Citigroup's giant data-processing center, where computers store financial information about millions of German credit-card holders. |
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