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Tactful Inattention: Erving Goffman, Privacy In The Digital Age, And The Virtue Of Averting One's Eyes, Elizabeth De Armond Dec 2017

Tactful Inattention: Erving Goffman, Privacy In The Digital Age, And The Virtue Of Averting One's Eyes, Elizabeth De Armond

Elizabeth De Armond

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The Singapore Personal Data Protection Act And An Assessment Of Future Trends In Data Privacy, Warren B. Chik Jun 2014

The Singapore Personal Data Protection Act And An Assessment Of Future Trends In Data Privacy, Warren B. Chik

Warren Bartholomew CHIK

In the first part of this paper, I will present and explain the Singapore Personal Data Protection Act (“PDPA”) in the context of legislative developments in the Asian region and against the well-established international baseline privacy standards. In the course of the above evaluation, reference will be made to the national laws and policy on data privacy prior to the enactment of the PDPA as well as current social and market practices in relation to personal data. In the second part of this paper, I will decipher and assess the future trends in data privacy reform and the future development …


European Union Data Privacy Law Developments, W. Gregory Voss Dec 2013

European Union Data Privacy Law Developments, W. Gregory Voss

W. Gregory Voss

This article explores recent developments in European Union data privacy and data protection law, through an analysis of European Union advisory guidance, independent administrative agency enforcement action, case law, and legislative reform in the areas of digital technologies, the internet, telecommunications and personal data. In the first case, Article 29 Working Party guidance on anonymization techniques – so important in the field of big data – is discussed and distinguished from pseudonymization. Next, Google privacy policy enforcement action by various EU Member State data protection agencies (inter alia, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain) is chronicled, with lessons being …


Survey Of Recent European Union Privacy Developments, W. Gregory Voss Oct 2012

Survey Of Recent European Union Privacy Developments, W. Gregory Voss

W. Gregory Voss

The Spanish law implementing the European Union (EU) Data Protection Directive, advisory guidance on consent, facial recognition and biometric technologies from the European Union Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (WP29) , and proposals for EU data protection law reform are analyzed in this survey piece. EU legislative processes are illustrated by a specific occurence: Spanish Organic Law 15/1999 on the Protection of Personal Data is reviewed in the context of Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) joined cases, Asociación Nacional de Establecimientos Financieros de Crédito (ASNEF) v. Administración del Estado, and Federación de Comercio Electrónico y Marketing …