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

By: Bamberger, Kenneth A, 1968- [author.].
Contributor(s): Mulligan, Deirdre K, 1966- [author.] | IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Information policy series: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2015]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2015]Description: 1 PDF (xiv, 338 pages).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262331340.Subject(s): Privacy, Right of | Privacy, Right of -- Europe | Corporate governance -- Law and legislation -- United States | Corporate governance -- Law and legislation -- Europe | Data protection -- Law and legislation -- United States | Data protection -- Law and legislation -- EuropeGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification: 342.08/58 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.
Contents:
Paradoxes of privacy on the books and on the ground -- Literature, framework, and methodology -- Background law -- Empirical findings--United States -- Empirical findings--Germany -- Empirical findings--Spain -- Empirical findings--France -- Empirical findings--United Kingdom -- Identifying best practices : the promise of U.S. and German privacy operationalization -- The U.S. privacy field -- The development of the German privacy field -- Catalyzing robust corporate privacy practices : bringing the outside in -- Moving forward.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-325) and index.

Paradoxes of privacy on the books and on the ground -- Literature, framework, and methodology -- Background law -- Empirical findings--United States -- Empirical findings--Germany -- Empirical findings--Spain -- Empirical findings--France -- Empirical findings--United Kingdom -- Identifying best practices : the promise of U.S. and German privacy operationalization -- The U.S. privacy field -- The development of the German privacy field -- Catalyzing robust corporate privacy practices : bringing the outside in -- Moving forward.

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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.

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