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Author Newman, Abraham, 1973-

Title Protectors of privacy : regulating personal data in the global economy / Abraham L. Newman
Published Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2008

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Description x, 221 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Data privacy and the global economy -- Privacy regimes : comprehensive and limited approaches -- The computer age : similar problems, different solutions -- The EU data privacy directive : transgovernmental actors as drivers of regional integration -- The spread of comprehensive rules : the international implications of the regulatory state -- The struggle over transnational civil liberties -- Regulatory power and the global economy
Summary "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."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-214) and index
Subject Data protection -- Law and legislation -- European Union counatries
Data protection -- Law and legislation -- European Union countries.
Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Europe.
Privacy, Right of -- European Union countries.
SUBJECT Europe -- Economic integration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045678
LC no. 2008011614
ISBN 9780801445491 (cloth : alk. paper)