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Data Politics. The Early Phase of Digitalisation within the Federal Government and the Debate on Computer Privacy in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s

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dc.creatorNeuroth, Benedikt
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-09T07:27:23Z
dc.date.available2021-07-09T07:27:23Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses how computer technology was implemented within the US federal government in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on sources from the Bureau of the Budget (BOB), later renamed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the article demonstrates that the Johnson administration centralised the management of Automatic Data Processing (ADP) and also set technical standards. To characterise this process, the article proposes to use the expression “early phase of digitalisation”. At the time, a debate arose about how the processing of personal data would affect individual rights. Several studies analysed the functioning of technology with regard to computer privacy and suggested general guidelines. In addition, Congress passed data privacy legislation. Regardless of the legal debate, computerisation continued under the Nixon administration. The article argues that digitalisation shaped the privacy debate at the time.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/7941
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16236
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/17087
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSFB 1187 "Medien der Kooperation" an der Universität Siegen
dc.publisher.placeSiegen
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2567-9104
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMedia in Action. Interdisciplinary Journal on Cooperative Media
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectComputergeschichtede
dc.subjectDatenschutzde
dc.subjectBrooks Billen
dc.subjectBureau of the Budgeten
dc.subjectOffice of Management and Budgeten
dc.subjectComputer historyen
dc.subjectInformation privacyen
dc.subjectBOBen
dc.subjectOMBen
dc.subject.ddcddc:302.23
dc.titleData Politics. The Early Phase of Digitalisation within the Federal Government and the Debate on Computer Privacy in the United States during the 1960s and 1970sen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2021-07-12T20:53:51
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/7941
local.source.epage80
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleFundaments of Digitisation
local.source.spage65

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