Emerging Challenges in Privacy Law
Comparative Perspectives

Prominent privacy law experts, regulators and academics examine contemporary legal approaches to privacy from a comparative perspective.

Normann Witzleb (Edited by), David Lindsay (Edited by), Moira Paterson (Edited by), Sharon Rodrick (Edited by)

9781107041677, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 April 2014

470 pages
22.9 x 14.2 x 3 cm, 0.8 kg

This collection of essays explores current developments in privacy law, including reform of data protection laws, privacy and the media, social control and surveillance, privacy and the Internet, and privacy and the courts. It places these developments into a broader international context, with a particular focus on the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Adopting a comparative approach, it creates an important resource for understanding international trends in the reform of privacy and data protection laws across a variety of contexts. Written by internationally recognised experts, Emerging Challenges in Privacy Law: Comparative Perspectives provides an accessible introduction to contemporary legal and policy debates in privacy and data protection law. It is essential reading for academics, policy makers and practitioners interested in current challenges facing privacy and data protection law in Europe and in the common law world.

Introduction: 1. Emerging challenges in privacy law: comparative perspectives Normann Witzleb, David Lindsay, Moira Paterson and Sharon Rodrick
Part I. Reforming the Data Protection Frameworks - Australian and EU Perspectives: 2. Privacy law reform: challenges and opportunities Timothy Pilgrim
3. Responding to new challenges to privacy through law reform: a privacy advocate's perspective Nigel Waters
4. The reform of EU data protection: towards more effective and more consistent data protection across the EU Peter Hustinx
Part II. Privacy in European Human Right Instruments: 5. Protection of privacy in the EU, individual rights and legal instruments Udo Fink
6. A world data privacy treaty? 'Globalisation' and 'modernisation' of Council of Europe Convention 108 Graham Greenleaf
Part III. Privacy in Private Law - Common Law and Statutory Causes of Action: 7. Protection against intrusion in English legislation Nicole Moreham
8. Privacy: common law or human right? Michael Tilbury
9. English privacy law in the light of the Leveson report Eric Barendt
Part IV. Privacy, Surveillance and Control: 10. Surveillance in public places: the regulatory dilemma Moira Paterson
11. Privacy and young people: controlling anti-social behaviour through loss of anonymity Thomas Crofts
Part V. Privacy and the Internet: 12. Data privacy law and the Internet: policy challenges Lee Bygrave
13. The 'right to be forgotten' in European data protection law David Lindsay
14. Privacy online: reform beyond law reform Megan Richardson and Andrew Kenyon
15. Privacy protection and data clouds in Germany and the influence of European law Dieter Dörr and Eva Aernecke
Part VI. Privacy, the Courts and the Media: 16. Open justice, privacy and suppressing identity in legal proceedings: 'what's in a name?' And would anonymity 'smell as sweet'? Sharon Rodrick
17. Interim injunctions for invasions of privacy: challenging the rule in Bonnard v. Perryman Normann Witzleb.

Subject Areas: Intellectual property law [LNR], Law [L], Media, information & communication industries [KNT]