Book Review: 'Data Privacy Law: An International Perspective'
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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, but not least, the EU data privacy regime under Data Protection Directive 95/46 is coming to an end and the work in progress already is bringing significant changes to the legal data privacy landscape, business practices and the lives of individuals.2 Looking beyond the purely legal developments, privacy as a policy issue in the digital era has become subject to intense debate on various levels among policy-makers, academics, national security agencies and legislators. The particular importance and topicality of privacy is (perhaps for the first time) best evidenced by the inter-governmental debates at the United Nations, where privacy rights and their limits are on the UN agenda among government officials (demonstrated by the unanimous General Assembly Resolution on the Privacy in the Digital Age back in 2013) and the subsequent efforts among the various UN bodies to address the increasingly urgent issues of privacy and extraterritorial surveillance. 3 Indeed, the mass-surveillance revelations by Edward Snowden have arguably attracted a previously unseen attention to privacy issues and which makes international headlines
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- European Journal of Law and Technology
دوره 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014