Title Regulating privacy : data protection and public policy in Europe and the United States / Colin J. Bennett

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 263 pages) Contents 1. The Policy Problem -- 2. The Politics of Data Protection -- 3. Evidence of Policy Convergence -- 4. Explaining the Convergence -- 5. The Choice of Policy Instruments -- 6. Explaining the Divergence -- 7. Policy Determinants, Styles, and Predictions Summary The information revolution has brought with it the technology for easily collecting personal information about individuals, a facility that inherently threatens personal privacy. Colin J. Bennett here examines political responses to the data protection issue in four Western democracies, comparing legislation that the United States, Britain, West Germany, and Sweden forged from the late 1960's to the 1980's to protect citizens from unwanted computer dissemination of personal information. Drawing on an extensive body of interviews and documentary evidence, Bennett considers how the four countries, each with different cultural traditions and institutions, formulated fair information policy. He finds that their computer regulatory laws are based on strikingly similar statutory principles, but that enforcement of these principles varies considerably: the United States relies on citizen initiative and judicial enforcement; Britain uses a registration system; Germany has installed an ombudsman; and Sweden employs a licensing system. Tracing the impact of key social, political, and technological factors on the ways different political systems have controlled the collection and communication of information, Bennett also deepens our understanding of policymaking theory. Regulating Privacy will be welcomed by political sciences-especially those working in comparative public policy, American politics, organization theory, and technology and politics-political economists, information systems analysts, and others concerned with issues of privacy Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-260) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Data protection -- Law and legislation -- Europe Privacy, Right of -- Europe Data protection -- Law and legislation -- United States Privacy, Right of -- United States POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Science & Technology Policy. Data protection -- Law and legislation Privacy, Right of Datenschutz Rechtspolitik Rechtsvergleich Databescherming. Privacy. Persoonsgegevens. Protection de l'information (Informatique) -- Droit -- Europe. Protection de l'information (Informatique) -- Droit -- Etats-Unis. Droit à la vie privée -- Europe. Droit à la vie privée -- Etats-Unis. Europe United States USA Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501722134 1501722131 9780801480102 0801480108

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