None of Your Business - Peter P. Swire, Robert E. Litan

None of Your Business

World Data Flows, Electronic Commerce, and the European Privacy Directive
Buch | Softcover
280 Seiten
1998
Brookings Institution (Verlag)
978-0-8157-8239-1 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
The historic European Union Directive on Data Protection will take effect in October 1998. A key provision will prohibit transfer of personal information from Europe to other countries if they lack ""adequate"" protection of privacy.
The historic European Union Directive on Data Protection will take effect in October 1998. A key provision will prohibit transfer of personal information from Europe to other countries if they lack “adequate” protection of privacy. If enforced as written, the Directive could create enormous obstacles to commerce between Europe and other countries, such as the United States, that do not have comprehensive privacy statutes.

In this book, Peter Swire and Robert Litan provide the first detailed analysis of the sector-by-sector effects of the Directive. They examine such topics as the text of the Directive, the tension between privacy laws and modern information technologies, issues affecting a wide range of businesses and other organizations, effects on the financial services sector, and effects on other prominent sectors with large transborder data flows. In light of the many and significant effects of the Directive as written, the book concludes with detailed policy recommendations on how to avoid a coming trade war with Europe.

The book will be of interest to the wide range of individuals and organizations affected by the important new European privacy laws. More generally, the privacy clash discussed in the book will prove a major precedent for how electronic commerce and world data flows will be governed in the Internet Age.

Peter P. Swire is professor of law at the Ohio State University College of Law. He is editor of the Cyberspace Law Abstracts and has written on cryptography, cyberbank­ing, and the legal regulation of the Internet.Robert E. Litan is director of the Economic Studies program and holder of the Cabot Family Chair at the Brookings Institution. His previous books include Going Digital! (Brookings/Cato, 1998) and Globaphobia: Confronting Fears about Open Trade (Brookings/Progressive Policy Institute/Twentieth Century Fund, 1998).

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. The Legal Context of the Privacy Directive

3. Data Protection and Information Technologies

4. Effects of Data Protection Laws on Electronic Commerce

5. Privacy Issues Affecting Many Organizations

6. The Financial Services Sector

7. Other Sectors with Large Transborder Activities

8. Policy Recommendations for Privacy Issues

9. The Internet, Electronic Commerce, and World Data Flows

Appendix A: European Union Directive on Data Protection

Appendix B: Summary of Potential Effects of the EU Directive

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.10.1998
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 227 g
Themenwelt Informatik Theorie / Studium Kryptologie
Technik
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Makroökonomie
ISBN-10 0-8157-8239-X / 081578239X
ISBN-13 978-0-8157-8239-1 / 9780815782391
Zustand Neuware
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