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National Information Infrastructure, the Information Superhighway and the Electronic Superhighway are no longer discussions of the past but are omnipresent vocabularies of the day -- envisioning a promise of universal access to the international networks of information and electronic communications. As the nation and the world embrace this concepts and goals, the authors in this issue discuss the need for a roadmap for such infrastructure and the level of governmental oversight as we travel along this superhighway into the future.

National Information Infrastructure, the Information Superhighway and the Electronic Superhighway are no longer discussions of the past but are omnipresent vocabularies of the day -- envisioning a promise of universal access to the international networks of information and electronic communications. As the nation and the world embrace this concepts and goals, the authors in this issue discuss the need for a roadmap for such infrastructure and the level of governmental oversight as we travel along this superhighway into the future.

We are in the midst of "Europe '92," the year when the European Community (EC) is to take on new shape and substance as it seeks transformation to economic and political strategies intended to enhance its position in international trade and commerce. With respect to matters of information processing and transborder data flow, the Council of Europe has prepared a draft directive concerning privacy and security regarding personal information (Privacy Directive). That draft, under consideration by the member states, is of great importance to the rest of the world since it contemplates that EC members will not exchange information with nations that do not comply with the directive's protocols. The United States would be in a precarious position were our business communities to be excluded from personal information exchange with European nations because our processing of such information fails to meet the EC privacy tests.