New Dimensions in Privacy Law - International and Comparative Perspectives

Klappentext Considers the challenges faced by privacy laws in changing technological, commercial and social environments. Zusammenfassung Considers the challenges faced by privacy laws in changing technological! commercial and social environments. The book encompasses three overlapping areas of analysis: privacy protection under the general law; legislative measures for data protection in digital communications networks; and the influence of transnational agreements and other pressures toward harmonised privacy standards. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. New dimensions in privacy: communications technologies, media practices and law Andrew T. Kenyon and Megan Richardson; 2. Privacy and freedom of speech Eric Barendt; 3. Revisiting the American action for public disclosure of private facts Brian C. Murchison; 4. The internet and the private life in Europe: risks and aspirations Yves Poullet and J. Marc Dinant; 5. APEC's privacy framework sets a new low standard for the Asia-Pacific Graham Greenleaf; 6. Copyright, privacy and Digital Rights Management (DRM) David Lindsay and Sam Ricketson; 7. Why there will never be an English common law privacy tort Raymond Wacks; 8. The 'right' of privacy in England and Strasbourg compared Gavin Phillipson; 9. Privacy and constitutions Kenneth J. Keith; 10. Celebrity privacy and benefits of simple history Megan Richardson and Lesley Hitchens; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew T. Kenyon, Andrew T. Richardson Kenyon
• Assisted by: Andrew T. Kenyon (Editor), Kenyon Andrew T. (Editor), Megan Richardson (Editor), Richardson Megan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521187657
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18765-7
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / International, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Conflict of Laws, Private International Law & Conflict Of Laws, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Private international law and conflict of laws