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    This document provides a brief history of information law from the 1960s to 1998. It discusses the earliest fears of a "Big Brother" society in the 1960s where the government could know everything about citizens. In 1974, the Privacy Act was passed in response to growing public concerns about government use of citizen information. However, it was criticized for being difficult to enforce and for excluding data collected by companies. The UK addressed these issues in 1984 with the Data Protection Act, which placed responsibilities on organizations to protect data relating to individuals. The 1990 Computer Misuse Act made unauthorized computer access and data alteration illegal in the UK. The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act criminalized helping users bypass digital rights management protections.

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    This document provides a brief history of information law from the 1960s to 1998. It discusses the earliest fears of a "Big Brother" society in the 1960s where the government could know everything about citizens. In 1974, the Privacy Act was passed in response to growing public concerns about government use of citizen information. However, it was criticized for being difficult to enforce and for excluding data collected by companies. The UK addressed these issues in 1984 with the Data Protection Act, which placed responsibilities on organizations to protect data relating to individuals. The 1990 Computer Misuse Act made unauthorized computer access and data alteration illegal in the UK. The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act criminalized helping users bypass digital rights management protections.

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    This document provides a brief history of information law from the 1960s to 1998. It discusses the earliest fears of a "Big Brother" society in the 1960s where the government could know everything about citizens. In 1974, the Privacy Act was passed in response to growing public concerns about government use of citizen information. However, it was criticized for being difficult to enforce and for excluding data collected by companies. The UK addressed these issues in 1984 with the Data Protection Act, which placed responsibilities on organizations to protect data relating to individuals. The 1990 Computer Misuse Act made unauthorized computer access and data alteration illegal in the UK. The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act criminalized helping users bypass digital rights management protections.

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    A B R I E F H I S T O R Y O F

    INFORMATION

    1960s
    LAW Computers had become
    sufficiently powerful for many
    US citizens to begin to see them
    as a potential danger.

    The greatest fear initially was of a


    "Big Brother' society, that is to
    say a society in which the
    government would know
    everything about its citizens and
    could exercise total control over
    them.

    1974
    Public concern regarding
    government use of information
    from citizens grew to the extent,
    so the Privacy Act was passed.

    The Act was criticized, however,


    because it was difficult to
    enforce and because it excluded
    the collection of data by
    companies and organizations.
    1984
    The UK Data Protection Act
    addressed many of these
    criticisms.

    The Act placed a responsibility on


    all organizations involved in the
    processing of data relating to
    identifiable individuals, to meet
    the requirements of the Act by
    appointing a data controller
    and registering their databases
    with an information
    commissioner.

    1990
    The Computer Misuse Act
    makes it an offence in the UK to
    access another person's
    computer, or alter data on their
    computer, without the owner's
    permission. 1998
    The Digital Millennium
    Copyright Act makes it a
    criminal offence to produce or
    disseminate technology to help
    users avoid digital rights
    management protection.

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