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Author Bennett, Colin J. (Colin John), 1955-

Title The governance of privacy : policy instruments in global perspective / Colin J. Bennett and Charles D. Raab
Edition [Second and updated edition]
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description xxvii, 354 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Policy Goals -- The Privacy Paradigm -- Privacy Protection as Social Policy -- Privacy Protection as Trust Promotion and Risk Management -- Part II Policy Instruments -- Transnational Policy Instruments -- Legal Instruments and Regulatory Agencies -- Self-Regulatory Instruments -- Technological Instruments -- Part III Policy Impacts -- Privacy Regimes -- The Evaluation of Impact -- International Privacy Protection : A Race to the Top, the Bottom, or Somewhere Else? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary The authors analyse privacy policy instruments available to industrial states, from government regulations and transnational regimes to self-regulation and privacy enhancing technologies, considering two possible dynamics of privacy regulation: a 'race to the bottom' versus 'a race to the top'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-339) and index
Subject Data protection -- Government policy -- OECD countries.
Privacy, Right of -- OECD countries.
Author Raab, Charles D.
LC no. 2005058021
ISBN 9780262524537 paperback
0262524538 paperback