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None of Your Business : World Data Flows, Electronic Commerce, and the European Privacy Directive.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Brookings Institution Press, 1998Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780815718710
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: None of Your BusinessLOC classification:
  • KJE6071 .S957 1998
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Legal Context of the Privacy Directive -- Data Protection and Information Technologies -- Effects of Data Protection Laws on Electronic Commerce -- Privacy Issues Affecting Many Organizations -- The Financial Services Sector -- Other Sectors with Large Transborder Activities -- Policy Recommendations for Privacy Issues -- 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 -- Back Cover.
Summary: 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.
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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Legal Context of the Privacy Directive -- Data Protection and Information Technologies -- Effects of Data Protection Laws on Electronic Commerce -- Privacy Issues Affecting Many Organizations -- The Financial Services Sector -- Other Sectors with Large Transborder Activities -- Policy Recommendations for Privacy Issues -- 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 -- Back Cover.

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.

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