New Dimensions in Privacy Law: International and Comparative Perspectives

by Edited by Andrew T. Kenyon , Megan Richardson

• ISBN13: 9780521860741
• ISBN10: 0521860741
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The challenges faced by privacy laws in changing technological, commercial and social environments are considered in this broad-ranging 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.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Preface	ix
1 New dimensions in privacy: Communications technologies, media practices and law	1	(10)
ANDREW T. KENYON AND MEGAN RICHARDSON
2 Privacy and freedom of speech	11	(21)
ERIC BARENDT
3 Revisiting the American action for public disclosure of private facts	32	(28)
BRIAN C. MURCHISON
4 The internet and private life in Europe: Risks and aspirations	60	(31)
YVES POULLET AND J. MARC DINANT
5 APEC's privacy framework sets a new low standard for the Asia-Pacific	91	(30)
GRAHAM GREENLEAF
6 Copyright, privacy and digital rights management (DRM)	121	(33)
DAVID LINDSAY AND SAM RICKETSON
7 Why there will never be an English common law privacy tort	154	(30)
RAYMOND WACKS
8 The 'right' of privacy in England and Strasbourg compared	184	(45)
GAVIN PHILLIPSON
9 Privacy and constitutions	229	(21)
KENNETH J. KEITH
10 Celebrity privacy and benefits of simple history	250	(20)
MEGAN RICHARDSON AND LESLEY HITCHENS
Bibliography	270	(16)
Index	286	(4)
Index of laws and directives	290	(3)
Index of case references	293