Protectors of Privacy : : Regulating Personal Data in the Global Economy / / Abraham L. Newman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Newman, Abraham L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 6 tables, 4 charts/graphs, 1 line figure

From credit-card purchases to electronic fingerprints, the amount of personal data available to government and business is growing exponentially. All industrial societies face the problem of how to regulate this vast world of information, but their governments have chosen distinctly different solutions. In Protectors of Privacy, Abraham L. Newman details how and why, in contrast to the United States, the nations of the European Union adopted comprehensive data privacy for both the public and the private sectors, enforceable by independent regulatory agencies known as data privacy authorities. Despite U.S. prominence in data technology, Newman shows, the strict privacy rules of the European Union have been adopted far more broadly across the globe than the self-regulatory approach championed by the United States. This rift has led to a series of trade and security disputes between the United States and the European Union.Based on many interviews with politicians, civil servants, and representatives from business and NGOs, and supplemented with archival sources, statistical analysis, and examples, Protectors of Privacy delineates the two principal types of privacy regimes-comprehensive and limited. The book presents a theory of regulatory development that highlights the role of transgovernmental networks not only in implementing rules but also in actively shaping the political process surrounding policymaking. More broadly, Newman explains how Europe's institutional revolution has created in certain sectors the regulatory capacity that allows it to challenge U.S. dominance in international economic governance.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Data Privacy and the Global Economy -- 2. Privacy Regimes: Comprehensive and Limited Approaches -- 3. The Computer Age: Similar Problems, Different Solutions -- 4. The EU Data Privacy Directive: Transgovernmental Actors as Drivers of Regional Integration -- 5. The Spread of Comprehensive Rules: The International Implications of the Regulatory State -- 6. The Struggle over Transnational Civil Liberties -- 7. Regulatory Power in the Global Economy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index