PrivacyInternational.org promotes the rights to privacy in the United States.
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Privacy International
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For more than two decades, governments and companies have used technologies to collect, process and disseminate a vast spectrum of personal information. Since the late 1980s, when computer and telecommunications systems began to converge, this process has accelerated. The result is that personal privacy is endangered as never before.
In 1990, in response to a growing number of privacy threats, more than a hundred leading privacy experts and Human Rights organizations from forty countries linked arms to form a world organization for the protection of privacy. Members of the new body, including computer professionals, academics, lawyers, journalists, jurists and human rights activists, had a common interest in promoting an international understanding of the importance of privacy and data protection. Meetings of the group, which took the name Privacy International, were held throughout that year in North America, Europe, Asia and the South Pacific, and members agreed to work toward the establishment of effective privacy protection throughout the world.
The formation of Privacy International is the first successful attempt to establish a structured world focus on this crucial area of human rights.
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