Enforcing Privacy (eBook)

David Wright is Director of Trilateral Research, a London-based research company, which he founded in 2004. He has been a partner in numerous projects funded by the European Commission involving privacy, surveillance, risk, security and ethics. He has published many articles in peer-reviewed journals. In addition to Enforcing Privacy, he co-edited and co-authored Privacy Impact Assessment (Springer 2012) with Paul De Hert. He was also principal editor of Surveillance in Europe (Routledge 2015). Paul De Hert is an international fundamental rights expert, with work on human rights and criminal and surveillance law, constitutionalism and the impact of technology on law. He is interested both in legal practice and more fundamental reflections about law. He is full professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) being co-director of the Research Group Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS) and of the Brussels Privacyhub. He also teaches “Privacy and Data Protection” at the Tilburg Institute of Law, Technology, and Society (TILT).

About the authors.- 1 Introduction to Enforcing Privacy; David Wright and Paul De Hert.- 2 Enforcing privacy; David Wright.- Countries.- 3 Failures of privacy self-regulation in the United States; Robert Gellman and Pam Dixon.- 4 From a model pupil to a problematic grown-up: Enforcing privacy and data protection in Hungary; Iván Székely.- 5 A tale of two privacies: Enforcing privacy with hard power and soft power in Japan; Hiroshi Miyashita.- 6 The Spanish experience of enforcing privacy norms: two decades of evolution from sticks to carrots; Artemio Rallo Lombarte.- 7 Data protection and enforcement in Latin America and in Uruguay; Ana Brian Nougrères.- International mechanisms.-8 The International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications – contributions to transnational privacy enforcement;Alexander Dix.- 9 Enforcing privacy across different jurisdictions; Dan Svantesson.- 10 Cross-border breach notification; Blair Stewart.- 11 Responsive regulation of data privacy: theory and Asian examples; Graham Greenleaf.- 12 Enforcement and reform of the EU-US Safe Harbor Agreement Instruments; Chris Connolly and Peter van Dijk.- 13 How effective are fines in enforcing privacy?; Hazel Grant and Hannah Crowther.- 14 Enforcing privacy rights: Class action litigation and the challenge of cy pres; Marc Rotenberg and David Jacobs.- 15 Data protection certification: Decorative or effective instrument? Audit and seals as a way to enforce privacy; Kirsten Bock.- 16 The co-existence of administrative and criminal law approaches to data protection wrongs; Paul De Hert and Gertjan Boulet.- 17 Whom to trust? Using technology to enforce privacy Challenges for the future; Daniel Le Métayer.-18 The Irish DPA and its approach to data protection; Billy Hawkes.- 19 Getting our act together: European Data Protection Authorities face up to Silicon Valley; Jacob Kohnstamm.- 20 Regaining control and sovereignty in the digital age; Jan Philipp Albrecht.- 21 Privacy enforcement in search of its base; James B. Rule.- Index.