Digital Data Collection and Information Privacy Law

Calling for future law reform, Burdon questions if you will have privacy in a world of ubiquitous data collection.

Mark Burdon (Author)

9781108406017, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 June 2022

336 pages, 1 b/w illus. 5 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.454 kg

'The book is well written … it is comprehensive, insightful, and very valuable for those wrestling with the ethical implications of the emerging globalized information society.' T. H. Koenig, Choice

In Digital Data Collection and Information Privacy Law, Mark Burdon argues for the reformulation of information privacy law to regulate new power consequences of ubiquitous data collection. Examining developing business models, based on collections of sensor data - with a focus on the 'smart home' - Burdon demonstrates the challenges that are arising for information privacy's control-model and its application of principled protections of personal information exchange. By reformulating information privacy's primary role of individual control as an interrupter of modulated power, Burdon provides a foundation for future law reform and calls for stronger information privacy law protections. This book should be read by anyone interested in the role of privacy in a world of ubiquitous and pervasive data collection.

1. Introduction
Part I. The Collected World: 2. The smart world is the collected world
3. The smart home: a collected target
4. Commercialising the collected
Part II. Information Privacy Law's Concepts and Applications: 5. What information privacy protects
6. How information privacy law protects
Part III. Information Privacy Law for a Collected Future: 7. Collected challenges
8. Conceptualising the collected
9. Using information privacy law to interrupt modulation
10. A smart, collected or modulated world?

Subject Areas: Intellectual property law [LNR], Entertainment & media law [LNJ], Privacy law [LNDC2], International human rights law [LBBR], Public international law [LBB], International law [LB], Law [L], Biography & True Stories [B]