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Commentary On Financial Privacy, Lynn M. Lopucki
Commentary On Financial Privacy, Lynn M. Lopucki
UF Law Faculty Publications
My three criticisms are this: First, Peter frames the problem as privacy versus government surveillance, thus ignoring the best solution to the problem, which is to make more information public. Second, Peter exaggerates the human need for privacy by presenting the need as immutable and essentially coextensive with embarrassment. People do not need nearly the privacy they think they do. Third, if Peter’s broad view of privacy holds, then you can forget about the information age.
"The Environmental Impacts Of International Finance Corporation Lending And Proposals For Reform: A Case Study Of Conservation And Oil Development In The Guatemalan Petén", Ian A. Bowles, Amy B. Rosenfeld, Cyril F. Kormos, Conrad C.S. Reining, James D. Nations, Thomas T. Ankersen
"The Environmental Impacts Of International Finance Corporation Lending And Proposals For Reform: A Case Study Of Conservation And Oil Development In The Guatemalan Petén", Ian A. Bowles, Amy B. Rosenfeld, Cyril F. Kormos, Conrad C.S. Reining, James D. Nations, Thomas T. Ankersen
UF Law Faculty Publications
This Article presents a case study of lending by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank Group, in the oil and gas sector in Guatemala. The case study emphasizes the need for additional environmental reform at IFC. With two separate loans in 1994 and 1996, IFC supported the activities of a small international oil company that was operating within a national park in the northern Guatemalan Petdn, an area of rich tropical forests and globally important wetlands. The company's operations had been "grandfathered"in to the park upon its creation in 1990. Funding from IFC …