Privacy on the ground : driving corporate behavior in the United States and Europe / Kenneth A. Bamberger and Deirdre K. Mulligan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bamberger, Kenneth A., 1968- author.

Mulligan, Deirdre K., 1966- author.

Series:

Information policy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privacy, Right of.

Privacy, Right of--Europe.

Corporate governance--Law and legislation.

Europe.

Corporate governance--Law and legislation--United States.

Corporate governance.

United States.

Corporate governance--Law and legislation--Europe.

Data protection--Law and legislation--United States.

Data protection.

Data protection--Law and legislation.

Data protection--Law and legislation--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Barely a week goes by without a new privacy revelation or scandal. Whether by hackers or spy agencies or social networks, violations of our personal information have shaken entire industries, corroded relations among nations, and bred distrust between democratic governments and their citizens. Polls reflect this concern, and show majorities for more, broader, and stricter regulation -- to put more laws "on the books." But there was scant evidence of how well tighter regulation actually worked "on the ground" in changing corporate (or government) behavior -- until now. This intensive five-nation study goes inside corporations to examine how the people charged with protecting privacy actually do their work, and what kinds of regulation effectively shape their behavior. And the research yields a surprising result. The countries with more ambiguous regulation -- Germany and the United States -- had the strongest corporate privacy management practices, despite very different cultural and legal environments. The more rule-bound countries -- like France and Spain -- trended instead toward compliance processes, not embedded privacy practices. At a crucial time, when Big Data and the Internet of Things are snowballing, Privacy on the Ground helpfully searches out the best practices by corporations, provides guidance to policymakers, and offers important lessons for everyone concerned with privacy, now and in the future."

Contents:

I Introduction 1

1 Paradoxes of Privacy on the Books and on the Ground 3

II Framing a Privacy on the Ground Approach 19

2 Literature, Framework, and Methodology 21

III Privacy on the Ground 45

3 Background Law 47

4 Empirical Findings-United States 59

5 Empirical Findings-Germany 89

6 Empirical Findings-Spain 105

7 Empirical Findings-France 127

8 Empirical Findings-United Kingdom 145

9 Identifying Best Practices: The Promise of U.S. and German Privacy Operationalization 173

IV Placing the Law in Context 181

10 The U.S. Privacy Field 183

11 The Development of the German Privacy Field 197

V Catalyzing Better Privacy Protection 217

12 Catalyzing Robust Corporate Privacy Practices: Bringing the Outside In 219

13 Moving Forward 239.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0262331349

9780262331340

9780262331333

0262331330

OCLC:

932293888

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.