[1079] Constitution of Finland, available at http://www.om.fi/constitution/3340.htm.
[1080] Id.
[1081] Personal Data Protection Act (523/99), available at http://www.tietosuoja.fi/uploads/hopxtvf.HTM.
[1082] Amendment of the Personal Data Act (986/2000), available at http://www.tietosuoja.fi/uploads/p9qzq7zr3xxmm9j.rtf.
[1083] Personal Data Files Act (Law No. 471/87).
[1084] Peter Blume et al., Nordic Data Protection 49 (DJOF Publishing 2000).
[1085] Id.
[1086] The Data Protection Ombudsman's Year in Review 2000, available at http://www.tietosuoja.fi/10993.htm.
[1087] Tietosuojaviranomaiset (Data protection in Finland) http://www.tietosuoja.fi.
[1088] Privacy International, Privacy, Technology, and Europe: A report for Japan's Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Postal, and Telecommunication, March 2003.
[1089] European Union Article 29 Data Protection Working Party ("WP29"), Fifth Annual Report on the Situation Regarding the Protection of Individuals with Regard to the Processing of Personal Data and Privacy in the European Union and in Third Countries Covering the Year 2000, Part II, March 6, 2002, available at http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/privacy/docs/wpdocs/2002/wp54en_2.pdf.
[1090] Data Protection Ombudsman, Transfer of Personal Data to a Foreign Country According to the Personal Data Act, Issues About Data Protection 1/2001, available at http://www.tietosuoja.fi/uploads/x51ivk0wndedh.rtf.
[1091] Council of the European Union: Answers to questionnaire on traffic data retention - EFFI, available at http://www.effi.org/sananvapaus/eu-2002-11-20.html.
[1092] Electronic Frontier Foundation Finland, "Finland proposes extensive data retention while the country's largest Telco executives are arrested for data misuse," http://www.effi.org/julkaisut/tiedotteet/pressrelease-2002-11-25.html.
[1093] Id.
[1094] Electronic Frontier Finland ("EFFi")'s homepage http://www.effi.org.
[1095] EFFI, "Finland rewrote the Internet censorship law," http://www.effi.org/julkaisut/tiedotteet/pressrelease-2003-02-16.html.
[1096] EFFI, "Freedom of expression: The law on liabilities in public communications," http://www.effi.org/sananvapaus/index.en.html;.
[1097] Id.
[1098] Id.
[1099] Act on the Protection of Privacy and Data Security in Telecommunications 22.4.1999/565, available at http://www.mintc.fi/www/sivut/suomi/tele/saadokset/telecom/norms/1999_565.htm.
[1100] http://www.mintc.fi/www/sivut/suomi/tele/tietosuoja.htm (in Finnish).
[1101] Act on Electronic Signatures (14/2003), available at http://www.mintc.fi/www/sivut/suomi/tele/saadokset/telecom/norms/14-2003en.htm.
[1102] Id.
[1103] Privacy International, Privacy, Technology, and Europe: A report for Japan's Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Postal, and Telecommunication, March 2003.
[1104] Id.
[1105] Id.
[1106] The Act on Data Protection in Working Life (477/2001), available at http://www.mol.fi/english/working/dataprotection.html.
[1107] Peter Blume et al., supra at 71.
[1108] See http://www.mol.fi/julkaisut/tietosuojaraportti.pdf (in Finnish).
[1109] EDRI-gram newsletter, June 2003.
[1110] Criminal Records Act (770/93).
[1111] Act on Population Information (1993/507).
[1112] Jorma Kuopus, Data Protection Regulatory System - Data Transmission and Privacy (D. Campbell & J. Fisher, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1994).
[1113] Act on Experiments with Seamless Service Chains in Social Welfare and Health Care Services and with a Social Security Card (811/2000), available at http://www.finlex.fi/pdf/saadkaan/E0000811.PDF.
[1114] Act on the Openness of Government Activities, available at http://www.om.fi/1184.htm.
[1115] Steve Stecklow, "Finnish Drivers Don't Mind Sliding Scale, But Instant Calculation Gets Low Marks," Wall Street Journal, January 2, 2001.
[1116] See http://www.qainfo.se/~lb.
[1117] See Temporary Injunction In The Anonymous Remailer Case http://www.penet.fi/injuncl.html.
[1118] Peter Blume et al., supra .
[1119] See, Finnish Population Register Centre's homepage http://www.vaestorekisterikeskus.fi.
[1120] "Your phone is you," New Scientist.Com http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/yourphoneisyou.jsp.
[1121] Peter Blume et al., supra.
[1122] Act 83/9/2/1951.
[1123] Wayne Madsen, Handbook of Personal Data Protection (Stockton Press 1992).
[1124] Signed April 10, 1991; ratified December 2, 1991; entered into force April 1, 1992.
[1125] Signed May 5, 1989; ratified May 10, 1990; entered into force May 10, 1990.
[1126] Signed November 23, 2001.
[1127] Kuopus, supra.
[1128] Act on The Autonomy of Åland, available at http://www.lagtinget.Aland.fi/eng/act.html.
[1129] Åland and the European Union, available at http://www.lagtinget.Aland.fi/eng/eu.html#anchor360419.
[1130] Madsen, supra.