Emerging challenges in privacy law : comparative perspectives / edited by Normann Witzleb and others.

"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"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Emerging challenges in privacy law : comparative perspectives / Normann Witzleb, David Lindsay, Moira Paterson and Sharon Rodrick -- Navigating privacy in the information age : the Australian perspective / Timothy Pilgrim -- Responding to new challenges to privacy through law reform : a privacy advocate's perspective / Nigel Waters -- The reform of EU data protection : towards more effective and more consistent data protection across the EU / Peter Hustinx -- Protection of privacy in the EU, individual rights and legal instruments / Udo Fink -- A world data privacy treaty? : 'Globalisation' and 'modernisation' of Council of Europe Convention 108 / Graham Greenleaf -- Protection against intrusion in English legislation / Nicole Moreham -- Privacy : common law or human right? / Michael Tilbury -- English privacy law in the light of the Leveson report / Eric Barendt -- Surveillance in public places : the regulatory dilemma / Moira Paterson -- Privacy and young people : controlling anti-social behaviour through loss of anonymity / Thomas Crofts -- Data privacy law and the Internet : policy challenges / Lee Bygrave -- The 'right to be forgotten' in European data protection law / David Lindsay -- Privacy online : reform beyond law reform / Megan Richardson and Andrew Kenyon -- Privacy protection and data clouds in Germany and the influence of European law / Dieter Dörr and Eva Aernecke -- Open justice, privacy and suppressing identity in legal proceedings : 'what's in a name?' And would anonymity 'smell as sweet'? / Sharon Rodrick -- Interim injunctions for invasions of privacy : challenging the rule in Bonnard v. Perryman / Normann Witzleb.

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