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Although over 100 countries have developed data privacy laws, there is a lack of expert guidance on these laws. This text examines the fundamental aims and principles of data privacy law, along with the mechanisms for its enforcement in an international context. Bygrave analyses relevant law from around the globe, paying particular attention to international instruments and using these as a foundation for examining national law. He also places data privacy law within a broader legal and political framework, focusing upon its interrelation with related fields, such as human rights, administrative law, and, intellectual property rights.

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Author:   Lee Andrew Bygrave (Professor, Norwegian Research Centre for Computers and Law, University of Oslo.)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.576kg
ISBN:  

9780199675555

ISBN 10:   0199675554
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   23 January 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Data Privacy Law in Context 2: Overview of Data Privacy Law 3: National Law 4: Aims and Scope of Data Privacy Law 5: Core Principles of data Privacy Law 6: Oversight and Enforcement of Data Privacy Law 7: Prospects for Global Consensus

Reviews

This publication is so much more than merely welcome to the fold: a publication of this calibre has been so long overdue that it will no doubt quickly become a much sought after (or even mandatory) text for many of those in departments of information science and law. This is, however, not a practitioners handbook - but then it is not intended to be. Callum Liddle, SCRIPTed This book goes where others have feared to tread. It goes beyond a simple analysis of national legislation into a global survey of the provisions and directions of the burgeoning law on this topic. The enactment of data privacy laws by 100 states, the transborder character of modern data flows, and the limits that contemporary technology places on effective laws make this study extremely valuable. It shows how no country can go about protecting data privacy effectively on its own. Yet privacy is a precious value of citizens, making action both politically imperative and challenging. Here is a book that is at once academically rigorous yet also practical and uniquely well informed. It is important, clear and timely. Highly recommended. The Hon Michael Kirby AC, CMG, Onetime Justice of the High Court of Australia and Chair of the OECD Expert Groups on Protection of Privacy and on Data Security. An admirably clear and comprehensive analysis of data privacy law around the world. It provides not only an overview of the complexity and ambiguity of this developing subject, but detailed analysis, perceptive comment, and criticism as well. It will be read with benefit by students, practitioners, and many others who have an interest in what happens to their personal data and how it is, and might be, regulated. Charles D. Raab, Professor of Government, University of Edinburgh

This book goes where others have feared to tread. It goes beyond a simple analysis of national legislation into a global survey of the provisions and directions of the burgeoning law on this topic. The enactment of data privacy laws by 100 states, the transborder character of modern data flows, and the limits that contemporary technology places on effective laws make this study extremely valuable. It shows how no country can go about protecting data privacy effectively on its own. Yet privacy is a precious value of citizens, making action both politically imperative and challenging. Here is a book that is at once academically rigorous yet also practical and uniquely well informed. It is important, clear and timely. Highly recommended. The Hon Michael Kirby AC, CMG, Onetime Justice of the High Court of Australia and Chair of the OECD Expert Groups on Protection of Privacy and on Data Security. An admirably clear and comprehensive analysis of data privacy law around the world. It provides not only an overview of the complexity and ambiguity of this developing subject, but detailed analysis, perceptive comment, and criticism as well. It will be read with benefit by students, practitioners, and many others who have an interest in what happens to their personal data and how it is, and might be, regulated. Charles D. Raab, Professor of Government, University of Edinburgh

Author Information

Dr Lee Andrew Bygrave is a Professor at the Norwegian Research Centre for Computers and Law, attached to the Department of Private Law, University of Oslo. He has acted as an expert advisor on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) regulatory policy for many institutions, including the EU Commission and the UK House of Lords Constitution Committee. He has published extensively within the field of privacy/data protection law and is the author of an international standard work in this field Data Protection Law: Approaching Its Rationale, Logic and Limits (Kluwer, 2002). He is also the co-author and principle editor of Internet Governance: Infrastructure and Institutions (OUP, 2009).

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