The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in Global Perspective

by Colin J. Bennett and Charles D. Raab

Book Overview

Analyzes privacy policy instruments available to contemporary industrial states, from government regulations and transnational regimes to self-regulation and privacy enhancing technologies.

Privacy protection, according to Colin Bennett and Charles Raab, involves politics and public policy as much as it does law and technology. Moreover, the protection of our personal information in a globalized, borderless world means that privacy-related...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262524538
• ISBN13: 9780262524537
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher