New Dimensions in Privacy Law
International and Comparative Perspectives

Considers the challenges faced by privacy laws in changing technological, commercial and social environments.

Andrew T. Kenyon (Edited by), Megan Richardson (Edited by)

9780521187657, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 23 December 2010

308 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.46 kg

Review of the hardback: 'This well-presented collection examines numerous aspects of privacy law from a wide range of perspectives. … The book will therefore be a useful resource for anyone wanting to identify some of the challenges to privacy inherent in modern life and to understand how the law does, and should, respond to them.' Journal of Cambridge Law

The challenges faced by privacy laws in changing technological, commercial and social environments are considered in this broad-ranging 2006 examination of privacy law. 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. Leading, internationally recognised authors discuss developments across these three areas in the UK, Europe, the US, APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation), Australia and New Zealand. Chapters draw on doctrinal and historical analysis of case law, theoretical approaches to both freedom of speech and privacy, and the interaction of law and communications technologies in order to examine present and future challenges to law's engagement with privacy.

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
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Subject Areas: Human rights & civil liberties law [LNDC], Private international law & conflict of laws [LBG], Public international law [LBB]