Regulating Privacy : : Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States / / Colin J. Bennett.
The information revolution has brought with it the technology for easily collecting personal information about individuals, a facility that inherently threatens personal privacy. Colin J. Bennett here examines political responses to the data protection issue in four Western democracies, comparing le...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1992 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The Policy Problem
- 2. The Politics of Data Protection
- 3. Evidence of Policy Convergence
- 4. Explaining the Convergence
- 5. The Choice of Policy Instruments
- 6. Explaining the Divergence
- 7. Policy Determinants, Styles, and Predictions
- Selected Bibliography
- Index