Privacy on the ground
Subtitle: driving corporate behavior in the United States and Europe
By: Kenneth A. Bamberger and Deirdre K. Mulligan
Contributors: Mulligan, Deirdre K., 1966- author
Series: Information policy series; Information policy series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780262029988
Subjects: Law and legislation; Right of Privacy; Data protection; Corporate governance
Description: 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. -- From book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-325) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Paradoxes of privacy on the books and on the ground; title: Framing a privacy on the ground apporach; title: Literature, framework, and methodology; title: Privacy on the ground; title: Background law; title: Empirical findings; title: United States; title: Empirical findings; title: Germany; title: Empirical findings; title: Spain; title: Empirical findings; title: France; title: Empirical findings; title: United Kingdom; title: Identifying best practices : the promise of U.S. and German privacy operationalization; title: Placing the law in context; title: The U.S. privacy field; title: The development of the German privacy field; title: Catalyzing better privacy protection; title: Catalyzing robust corporate privacy practices : bringing the outside in; title: Moving forward.