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Rule, B. James --- "Global Privacy Protection" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008) [2008] ELECD 393

Editor(s): Rule, B. James

Title: Global Privacy Protection

Sub-title: The First Generation

Topics: Information and Media Law; Public Policy

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 28 November 2008

Number of pages: 328

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848440630

ISBN (soft cover): 9781849803168

EISBN: 9781848445123

Abstract/Description:

Global Privacy Protection reviews the origins and history of national privacy codes as social, political and legal phenomena in Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, South Korea and the United States.

The first chapter reviews key international statements on privacy rights, such as the OECD, EU and APEC principles. In the following chapters, the seven national case studies present and analyze the widest variety of ‘privacy stories’ in an equally varied array of countries. They look beyond the details of what current national data-protection laws allow and prohibit to examine the origins of public concern about privacy; the forces promoting or opposing privacy codes; the roles of media, grassroots activists and elite intervention; and a host of other considerations shaping the present state of privacy protection in each country.

Providing a rich description of the interweaving of national traditions, legal institutions, and power relations, this book will be of great interest to scholars engaged in the study of comparative law, information law and policy, civil liberties, and international law. It will also appeal to policy-makers in the many countries now contemplating the adoption of privacy codes, as well as to privacy activists.