Privacy revisited : a global perspective on the right to be left alone /

"Rapid technological change, the advent of Big Data, and the creation of society-wide government surveillance programs have transformed the accessibility of highly personal information: these developments have highlighted the ambiguous treatment of privacy and personal intimacy. National legal...

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Main Author: Krotoszynski, Ronald J., 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; New York , NY : Oxford University Press, 2016
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A prolegomenon to privacy : on the potential virtues and benefits of a comparative legal analysis of the right to be left alone
  • The United States: The polysemy of privacy : an analysis of the many faces and facets of the right of privacy in the contemporary United States
  • Canada: Privacy in Canada : taming a notoriously protean legal concept with a coherent and purposive approach
  • The Republic of South Africa: Privacy in South Africa : deploying dignity, equality, and freedom to safeguard the process of democratic self-government
  • The United Kingdom: Privacy in the United Kingdom : on the perils and promise of weak-form judicial review in securing privacy rights
  • The European Court of Human Rights: Privacy rights in Europe : reconciling privacy and speech in the era of big data
  • Conclusion: Bringing Meiklejohn to privacy : on the essential complementarity of privacy and speech