it's about people, it's about knowing where the data comes from, it's about questioning: again nothing new, but repeating circles. recalling first military simulations done by number crunchers. is there a way to move on, please?¿

"...That we are all sitting here today with one of the biggest technologies that we've invented, and were using it to solve trivialities. We use it to solve advertising problems, hypothetical data scientist pulling down information about a childrens breakfast cereal, measuring and constructing data to build models to determine the exact color of the packaging, the position on the shelf, and how much money we should charge for it. (sean gurley (01:58) | structure:data conference 2013

"Since you can't connect dots you don't have, it drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever." (hunt) | cia chews everything

reading old reports from the commission, many obstacles have been known since ..., well for a long time, and have been considered to be a problem within the EU aka ECC to foster the telecom market.

...handicaps which beset the Community: (as seen in 1983)

• compartmentalized market which stunt supply and demand;
• the uncertainty of carriers and companies over what development strategies to put in hand;
• weakness in the fundamental technologies of telecommunications;
• backwardness of less favoured areas in respect of networks, equipment, and advanced telecommunications services. | com(84) 277 final, Brussels, 18th May 1984

Member States at that time: Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom and Greece.

and who oversaw the process ...?¿

towards a negotiable definition of propaganda for international agreements related to direct broadcasting | jon t. powell, 1982

and for sure one shouldn't leave out the following doc in this regard: a summary about warc (world administrative radio conference)
warc-79

generally, fas/ota archive appears to be a nice source for getting an idea what and how devs. have been discussed in the usa academic/policy circles.

seems in the 80s maritime/space law have been the role model in this debate, while today we are back to domestic viewpoints, are we?

the primary might be an explanation why many telco/surveillance laws were negotiated for a long time under "fishing rights". no conspiracy, as some suggested, just the right place for international treaties, if one follows that notion.