Protectors of Privacy: Regulating Personal Data in the Global Economy

Abraham L. Newman

Published by Cornell University Press 2008

Protectors of Privacy

Regulating Personal Data in the Global Economy

Abraham L. Newman

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501729218

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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...

Author / Editor information

Abraham L. Newman is Assistant Professor in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He is the coeditor of How Revolutionary Was the Digital Revolution?: National Responses, Market Transitions, and Global Technology.

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Michael E. Smith, School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews:

Protectors of Privacy deals with an increasingly important issue that cuts across international security, international political economy, international law, and comparative political economy. Abraham L. Newman offers an intriguing argument involving the general role of 'regulatory power' and the specific role of the European Union in world politics.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Data Privacy and the Global Economy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Privacy Regimes: Comprehensive and Limited Approaches Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3. The Computer Age: Similar Problems, Different Solutions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
4. The EU Data Privacy Directive: Transgovernmental Actors as Drivers of Regional Integration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
5. The Spread of Comprehensive Rules: The International Implications of the Regulatory State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
6. The Struggle over Transnational Civil Liberties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
7. Regulatory Power in the Global Economy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Illustrations
- Other: 6 tables, 4 charts/graphs, 1 line figure
Keywords: Political Science & Political History; Legal History & Studies

eBook

Published: July 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501729218