Protectors of Privacy

by Abraham L. Newman

From credit-card purchases to electronic fingerprints, the amount of personal data available to government and business is growing exponentially. All industrial societies face the problem of how to regulate this vast world of information, but their governments have chosen distinctly different solutions. In Protectors of Privacy, Abraham L. Newman details how and why, in contrast to the United States, the nations of the European Union adopted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801445493
• ISBN13: 9780801445491
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher