Privacy in The Information Society Volume II * The Library of essays on Law and Privacy
Information society projects promise wealth and better services to those countries which digitise and encourage the consumer and citizen to participate. As paper recedes into the background
and digital data becomes the primary resource in the information society, what does this mean for privacy? Can there be privacy when every communication made through ever-developing
ubiquitous devices is recorded? Data protection legislation developed as a reply to large scale centralised databases which contained incorrect data and where data controllers denied access and
refused to remedy information flaws. Some decades later the technical world is very different one, and whilst data protection remains important, the cries for more privacy-oriented regulation
in commerce and eGov continue to rise. What factors should underpin the creation of new means of regulation? The papers in this collection have been drawn together to develop the positive
and negative effects upon the information society which privacy regulation implies.
Contents
Introduction
Part I Privacy Generally
An examination of the concern for information privacy in the New Zealand regulatory context,
Property rights in personal information: an economic defense of privacy
Privacy and security concerns as major barriers for e-commerce: a survey study,
Privacy by design – principles of privacy-aware ubiquitous systems,
The problem of anonymous vanity searches,
Part II
Data Protection and Commerce
EU data protection policy. The privacy fallacy: adverse effects of Europe’s data protection policy in an information-driven economy,
Information technology, marketing practice, and consumer privacy: ethical issues,
Consent in data protection law: privacy, fair processing and confidentiality,
The Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC: idealisms and realisms,
Behavioral advertising: the cryptic hunter and gatherer of the internet,
Privacy and confidentiality in an e-commerce world: data mining, data warehousing, matching and disclosure limitation,
Safe harbor – a framework that works,
The ‘final’ privacy frontier? Regulating trans-border data flows,
To track or not to track: recent legislative proposals to protect consumer privacy,
Part III Biometrics
Biometrics: privacy’s foe or privacy’s friend?,
Privacy issues in the application of biometrics: a European perspective
Biometrics and privacy: a note on the politics of theorizing technology,
Biometric technologies in support of identity and privacy assurance,
Privacy law: biometrics and privacy, Jan Grijpink.
Part IV
The Cloud
Security and privacy implications of cloud computing – lost in the cloud,
Privacy and consumer risks in cloud computing,
Digital evidence in cloud computing systems,
Caught in the clouds: the web 2.0, cloud computing, and privacy?
Part V
Geo-Location
Re-mapping privacy law: how the Google Maps scandal requires tort law reform,
E-commerce tax: how the taxman brought geography to the ‘borderless’ internet,
Tweets from Justin Bieber’s heart: the dynamics of the ‘location’ field in user profiles,
Part VI
Social Networks
Teens, privacy and online social networks: how teens manage their online identities and personal information in the age of MySpace
Publicly private and privately public: social networking on YouTube,
Employer’s use of social networking sites: a socially irresponsible practice
Social networking websites – a concatenation of impersonation, denigration, sexual aggressive solicitation, cyber-bullying or happy slapping videos,
Part VII
Health Care Impact of news of celebrity illness on breast cancer screening: Kylie Minogue’s breast cancer diagnosis
Privacy, information technology, and health care
‘Iceland Inc.’?: On the ethics of commercial population genomics
Geocoding in cancer research: a review
Name index.
