Global privacy protection : the first generation / edited by James B. Rule and Graham Greenleaf.

Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : E. Elgar, [2008]

©2008

1 online resource (vii, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps

Elgaronline.

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-297) and index.

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