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

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 soluti...

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