Privacy and security in transnational data processing systems

Transnational data processing systems are international value-added, public, special-interest community, or private computer-communications networks that operate computers in several countries and provide computing services to users in these and other countries. Examples of such systems are the North American-based Telenet, Infonet, Mark III, Tymnet, and Datapac, and the European developmental Euronet and the Nordic Data Network. Among computer networks operated by international communities are SITA, an airlines reservation system, and SWIFT, a worldwide interbank financial telecommunications network. In development is the European Informatics Network (EIN) which will provide information services and data base access to users in the countries of the European Economic Community (EEC). Finally, private computer-communications systems are operated over international data carrier networks by multinational corporations in many countries.