Data Privacy Law

This publication is so much more than merely welcome to the fold: a publication of this calibre has been so long overdue that it will no doubt quickly become a much sought after (or even mandatory) text for many of those in departments of information science and law. This is, however, not a practitioners handbook - but then it is not intended to be. Callum Liddle, SCRIPTed This book goes where others have feared to tread. It goes beyond a simple analysis of national legislation into a global survey of the provisions and directions of the burgeoning law on this topic. The enactment of data privacy laws by 100 states, the transborder character of modern data flows, and the limits that contemporary technology places on effective laws make this study extremely valuable. It shows how no country can go about protecting data privacy effectively on its own. Yet privacy is a precious value of citizens, making action both politically imperative and challenging. Here is a book that is at once academically rigorous yet also practical and uniquely well informed. It is important, clear and timely. Highly recommended. The Hon Michael Kirby AC, CMG, Onetime Justice of the High Court of Australia and Chair of the OECD Expert Groups on Protection of Privacy and on Data Security. An admirably clear and comprehensive analysis of data privacy law around the world. It provides not only an overview of the complexity and ambiguity of this developing subject, but detailed analysis, perceptive comment, and criticism as well. It will be read with benefit by students, practitioners, and many others who have an interest in what happens to their personal data and how it is, and might be, regulated. Charles D. Raab, Professor of Government, University of Edinburgh