| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 367 pages) |
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Oxford data protection and privacy law |
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Oxford data protection and privacy law.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-Title -- Series page -- Title -- Copyright -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- List of Abbreviations -- Note to Readers -- 1. The 'Privacy Problem' in the Digital Age -- 1. Imperatives of an 'International Law' Response -- 2. International Law's Privacy Problem -- 2.1. Normative Limits -- 2.2. Institutional-.Jurisprudential Limits -- 3. Promises of Global Privacy Initiatives -- 4. State of the Art and the Book's Argument -- 4.1. The Status Quo Approach -- 4.2. The Hard Legalization Approach |
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4.3. The Institutionalist Approach -- 4.4. The Soft Legalization Approach -- 4.5. The Book's Argument -- 5. Method and Analytical Framework -- 6. A Note on Terminologies and Concepts -- PART I: INTERNATIONAL LAW OF PRIVACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE -- 2. The Reach of Human Rights Law -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Human Right to Privacy and the Cold War -- 2.1. The Cold War Effect -- 2.2. The Privacy Inattention Effect -- 3. Normative Sources -- 3.1. Treaty Law -- 3.2. Custom -- 3.3. General Principles -- 3.4. Soft Law -- 4. 'Blind Spots' -- 4.1. Normative Gaps -- 4.2. Institutional-.Structural Gaps |
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4.3. Jurisprudential Gaps -- 5. Conclusion -- 3. Boundaries of International Data Privacy Law -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data Privacy and the Cold War -- 2.1. The Cold War Effect -- 2.2. The Data Privacy Inattention Effect -- 3. Normative Sources -- 3.1. Treaty Law -- 3.2. Custom -- 3.3. General Principles -- 3.4. Soft Law -- 4. Falling into Disuse -- 4.1. Problems of Substance and Approach -- 4.2. Problems of Institutionalization -- 5. Conclusion -- PART II: GLOBAL PRIVACY INITIATIVES AND INTERNATIONAL LAW -- 4. Internet Bills of Rights -- 1. Introduction |
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2. Making Sense of Internet Bills of Rights -- 2.1. Origins of a Constitutional Project -- 2.2. Locating Convergence in IBRs Initiatives -- 2.3. Legal Sources and Forms in IBRs -- 2.4. Privacy in IBRs -- 3. Situating IBRs in International Law -- 3.1. Freestanding Role -- 3.2. Contributory Role -- 3.3. Catalytic Role -- 4. Conclusion -- 5. Emergent Privacy Standards -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mapping the Discourse -- 2.1. Background to the Discourse -- 2.2. Novelties of the Discourse -- 3. Situating the Discourse in International Law -- 3.1. Elaborative and Interpretive Functions |
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3.2. Universalizing Privacy Standards -- 3.3. Charting Normative and Methodological Directions -- 4. Conclusion -- 6. Transnational Privacy Standards -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background to the Convention 108(+.) System -- 3. Norm Universalization -- 3.1. Meaning -- 3.2. Virtues -- 4. Avenues of Norm Universalization -- 4.1. Accession -- 4.2. Accretion of General International Law -- 4.3. Jurisprudential Cross-.influence -- 5. Prospect of other Regional Standards -- 6. Conclusion -- PART III: TOWARDS A PRAGMATIC APPROACH -- 7. Virtues of Soft Legalization -- 1. Introduction |
| Summary |
This book examines the role of international law in securing privacy and data protection in the digital age. Driven mainly by the transnational nature of privacy threats involving private actors as well as States, calls are increasingly made for an 'international' privacy framework to meet these challenges. Mapped against a flurry of global privacy initiatives, the book explores the extent to which and whether international law attends to the complexities of upholding digital privacy. It does so in three levels. First, the book interrogates boundaries of international privacy law in upholding privacy and data protection in the digital ecosystem where threats to privacy are increasingly transnational, sophisticated, and privatized. It demonstrates that shackled by a host of normative and structural setbacks, international law offers weak protections to privacy and data protection. Second, the book explores the potential of global privacy initiatives, namely Internet bills of rights, universalization of regional systems of data privacy protection, and the multi-level privacy discourse at the United Nations, in reimagining the normative contours of international privacy law. It finds that none of the global privacy initiatives will effectively address structural shortcomings of international law. Third, the book proposes a pragmatic approach to the international law of privacy that could make it better-equipped in the digital age. Drawing on the catalytic potential of global privacy initiatives, the book lays out a set of reform ideas that could help address the major normative and institutional blind spots in international privacy law |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 13, 2023) |
| Subject |
Conflict of laws -- Privacy, Right of.
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Privacy, Right of.
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Data protection -- Law and legislation.
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Conflict of laws -- Privacy, Right of
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Data protection -- Law and legislation
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Privacy, Right of
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Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.
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Law.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192887306 |
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0192887300 |
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9780191981869 |
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0191981869 |
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9780192887313 |
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0192887319 |
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