None of Your Business: World Data Flows, Electronic Commerce, and the European Privacy Directive

by Peter P. Swire and Robert E. Litan

Book Overview

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The historic European Union Directive on Data Protection will take effect in October 1998. A key provision will prohibit transfer of personal information from Europe to other countries if they lack ""adequate"" protection of privacy. If enforced as written, the Directive could create enormous obstacles to commerce between Europe and other countries, such as the United States, that do not have comprehensive privacy statutes. In this book, Peter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081578239X
• ISBN13: 9780815782391
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

For those who loves privacy

This is a necessary tool to every person, not only to lawyers, interested to know how the "personal data protection" works in the European Union. You will be surprised with the similarities between the privacy regimes in Europe and the United States, notwithstanding this systems differ in important particulars. The book includes the study of the ways in which restrictive data protection law may clash with free trade agreements signed by the US and the members of the EU, as the World Trade Organization. The book is highly recommended.