Internet Privacy Rights
Rights to Protect Autonomy

What rights to privacy do we have on the internet, and how can we make them real?

Paul Bernal (Author)

9781107042735, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 March 2014

328 pages, 1 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.61 kg

'… this is a well-written and insightful account of the current state of privacy online as well as a manifesto for reform. As an overview of the issues in internet privacy law, it is both accessible to the general reader and consistently interesting to the specialist, and can be confidently recommended to both.' T. J. McIntyre, Irish Jurist

Internet Privacy Rights analyses the current threats to our online autonomy and privacy and proposes a new model for the gathering, retention and use of personal data. Key to the model is the development of specific privacy rights: a right to roam the internet with privacy, a right to monitor the monitors, a right to delete personal data and a right to create, assert and protect an online identity. These rights could help in the formulation of more effective and appropriate legislation, and shape more privacy-friendly business models. The conclusion examines how the internet might look with these rights in place and whether such an internet could be sustainable from both a governmental and a business perspective.

1. Internet privacy rights
2. Privacy, autonomy and the internet
3. The symbiotic Web
4. Law, privacy and the internet: the landscape
5. Navigating the internet
6. Behavioural tracking
7. Data vulnerability and the right to delete
8. A rights-based approach
9. Privacy and identity
10. A privacy-friendly future?

Subject Areas: Intellectual property law [LNR], Human rights & civil liberties law [LNDC], E-commerce law [LNCB2], Law [L], Human rights [JPVH]