Government watchdog to monitor computer files

Title

Government watchdog to monitor computer files

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

6 Dec 1978

Year of production

1978

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Duration

00:04:37

Description

Report on setting up a government watchdog to monitor computer files. It looks at how the Government promised to study the way computers affect our private lives, the emergence of a data protection act, how there are threats in the present set-up, how the Government should set up an authority on this, the dangers of data on computers, and who could use the data.

Contributors

Julian Bogart; Norman Lindop

Keywords

Government; Data protection; Computers; Confidentiality (data security)

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