Book Review: Asian Data Privacy Laws: Trade and Human Rights Perspectives

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Book Review: 'Data Privacy Law: An International Perspective'

We live in interesting times of continuous flux, and this is especially true of data privacy. Indeed the world of privacy is changing, and changing fast: many new initiatives and international agreements on data privacy are being negotiated and the existing international data privacy frameworks, such as the Council of Europe Convention 108, the OECD Guidelines, have recently been revised. Last,...

Sex Laws and Sexuality Rights in Comparative and Global Perspectives

This article seeks to explain the emergence of a new field of study oriented toward sex laws and sexuality rights in comparative and global perspectives. We argue that this field comes into focus because of three changes in the social context: the introductions of sexuality into sex, of human rights into national laws, and of global into comparative perspectives. Each turn of the social kaleido...

Book Review: Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources: An Asian Perspective

‘Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources: An Asian Perspective’ offers a look at the current utilization of open educational resources (OER) in higher education (HE) in Asia. This compilation of country perspectives and cases studies is co-published by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in Vancouver, Canada and OER Asia operated out of the Institute for Research a...

Balancing crime detection, human rights and privacy

In 1994, the UK created the legal basis for a national DNA database of people who have been convicted of all but the most trivial offences. Since its creation one year later, the National DNA Database (NDNAD) has grown to include DNA samples from 2.7 million individuals—about 5.2% of the UK population (Home Office, 2006)—many of whom have never been charged with, or convicted of, any offence. I...