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Privacy and Security – On the Evolution of a European Conflict
Privacy and security have long been framed as incommensurable concepts that had to be traded off against each other. While such a notion is rather...
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Evolution or Revolution? Steps Forward to a New Generation of Data Protection Regulation
The birth of data protection regulation in Europe was directly linked to technological developments – mainly to the impressive IT developments of the...
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Tracing the Right to Be Forgotten in the Short History of Data Protection Law: The “New Clothes” of an Old Right
When the European Commission (EC) published its draft Data Protection Regulation (DPR) in early 2012, a swirl of concern hit data controllers...
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Models and Tools for the Computational Support of Technology Impact Assessments, Applied in the Context of Mass Transportation
This chapter describes the conceptual and practical developments for a software prototype created in the course of the SIAM FP7 project (EC reference...
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Importance of Data Protection in the Information Age
Governments and other human consortia have for years gathered important and personal information on people. While much of this information was...
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Western European Initiatives
Present Western European concepts on data protection are a direct result of experiences arising from World War II. The general tendencies of the...
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Australia, Canada and New Zealand Data Protection
The major English-speaking countries of the old Commonwealth that have governments patterned on the British model have shown some reluctance to adopt...
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Data Protection in Japan and Hong Kong
The importance of international data flow between Japan and Hong Kong and the other industrialized nations of Western Europe, North America and...
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Handbook of Personal Data Protection
Although the concept of personal data protection began in Europe in the early 1970s, data protection legislation has been adopted in many countries....
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The USA: First in Technology and Last in Data Protection
While the USA ardently fought the Fascist powers of the Axis, it experienced its own dilemma with regard to data protection shortly after the end of...
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International, National and Sub-National Data Protection Laws
Sec. 1. (1) Everyone shall have the right that his personal data are kept secret insofar as he has an interest in such data that needs protection, in...
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International Efforts and Proposals for Data Protection in the 21st Century
In addition to the European Community and the OECD, organizations like the United Nations (UN) are considering the adoption of international data...
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Introduction
One by-product of the information age is that personal privacy is being eroded in a way that would have astounded George Orwell when he contemplated...
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Data Protection in Asia, Africa and Latin America
Develo** nations in Asia, Africa and Latin America have either not yet addressed the issue of personal data protection in the European sense, or...
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Eastern European Data Protection: Unique Experiences
The removal of Communist governments in Eastern Europe throughout 1989, 1990 and 1991 also witnessed an interest by the new democratic governments in...