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Regulating Privacy - Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States (Paperback, New)
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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.
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