Enforcing Privacy: Regulatory, Legal And Technological Approaches (law, Governance And Technology Series)
by David Wright /
2016 / English / PDF
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This book is about enforcing privacy and data protection. It
demonstrates different approaches – regulatory, legal and
technological – to enforcing privacy.
This book is about enforcing privacy and data protection. It
demonstrates different approaches – regulatory, legal and
technological – to enforcing privacy.
If regulators do not enforce laws or regulations or codes or do
not have the resources, political support or wherewithal to
enforce them, they effectively eviscerate and make meaningless
such laws or regulations or codes, no matter how laudable or
well-intentioned. In some cases, however, the mere existence of
such laws or regulations, combined with a credible threat to
invoke them, is sufficient for regulatory purposes. But the
threat has to be credible. As some of the authors in this
book make clear – it is a theme that runs throughout this book –
“carrots” and “soft law” need to be backed up by “sticks” and
“hard law”.
If regulators do not enforce laws or regulations or codes or do
not have the resources, political support or wherewithal to
enforce them, they effectively eviscerate and make meaningless
such laws or regulations or codes, no matter how laudable or
well-intentioned. In some cases, however, the mere existence of
such laws or regulations, combined with a credible threat to
invoke them, is sufficient for regulatory purposes. But the
threat has to be credible. As some of the authors in this
book make clear – it is a theme that runs throughout this book –
“carrots” and “soft law” need to be backed up by “sticks” and
“hard law”.
The authors of this book view privacy enforcement as an activity
that goes beyond regulatory enforcement, however. In some sense,
enforcing privacy is a task that befalls to all of us. Privacy
advocates and members of the public can play an important role in
combatting the continuing intrusions upon privacy by governments,
intelligence agencies and big companies.
The authors of this book view privacy enforcement as an activity
that goes beyond regulatory enforcement, however. In some sense,
enforcing privacy is a task that befalls to all of us. Privacy
advocates and members of the public can play an important role in
combatting the continuing intrusions upon privacy by governments,
intelligence agencies and big companies.
Contributors to this book - including regulators, privacy
advocates, academics, SMEs, a Member of the European Parliament,
lawyers and a technology researcher – share their views in the
one and only book on Enforcing Privacy.
Contributors to this book - including regulators, privacy
advocates, academics, SMEs, a Member of the European Parliament,
lawyers and a technology researcher – share their views in the
one and only book on Enforcing Privacy.