Greenleaf, Graham --- "Data protection in a globalised network" [2013] ELECD 526; in Brown, Ian (ed), "Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) 221

Book Title: Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet

Editor(s): Brown, Ian

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849805025

Section: Chapter 10

Section Title: Data protection in a globalised network

Author(s): Greenleaf, Graham

Number of pages: 39

Abstract/Description:

This chapter provides an overview of the state of global data privacy law (also called ‘data protection’ and ‘information privacy’) as at mid-2011, with an emphasis on the extent to which such laws are able to deal with new technological challenges associated with the networking of the world resulting primarily from the development of the internet, particularly since 1995. Special attention is given to two most likely indicators of the directions in which global data privacy will develop: the EU Commission’s proposals for expansion of data privacy law set out in the report ‘A comprehensive approach on personal data protection in the European Union’ (EU Commission 2010); and the recent rapid expansion of new data privacy laws outside Europe.