Editing Data haven (section)

==History of the term==
The 1978 report of the British government's Data Protection Committee expressed concern that different [[privacy]] standards in different countries would lead to the transfer of personal data to countries with weaker protections; it feared that Britain might become a "data haven".<ref name="NewSci1978">{{cite news|last=Michael|first=James|title=New Report on Computer Data Banks|work=[[New Scientist]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tTs5-WSNM6AC&pg=PA432|date=November 9, 1978|accessdate=November 29, 2010}}{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Also in 1978, Adrian Norman published a mock consulting study on the feasibility of setting up a company providing a wide range of data haven services, called "Project Goldfish".<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.adminet.co.uk/clients/ANAAL/goldfish.pdf |url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903080638/http://www.adminet.co.uk/clients/ANAAL/goldfish.pdf
|archive-date=2011-09-03
|last=Norman |first=Adrian
|title=Project Goldfish
|publisher=IPC Science and Technology Press
|date=September 1978
}}</ref>

Science fiction novelist [[William Gibson]] used the term in his novels ''[[Count Zero]]'' and ''[[Mona Lisa Overdrive]]'', as did Bruce Sterling in ''[[Islands in the Net]]''.  The 1990s segments of [[Neal Stephenson]]'s 1999 novel ''[[Cryptonomicon]]'' concern a small group of entrepreneurs attempting to create a data haven.