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China’s Pragmatic Privacy Law beyond APEC: Does Generational Culture Matter?  By Cheryl L. Brown   Associate Professor  Department of Political Science  University of North Carolina at Charlotte  [email protected]  Paper Draft 1  Please do not quote without permission    Abstract     Culture and tradition remain significant influences  in China’s conception of privacy and  implementation of data protection laws.  At the sam e time, the National People’s  Congress’ initiation of privacy protection consider ation reveals the prospect of evolving  laws emphasizing protection of data privacy based o n domestic and international  developments.  Although a growing literature focuse s on Internet filtering and social  networking mining, this paper will examine five fac tors influencing national and  international perspectives of China’s approach to p rivacy and data protection: (1) privacy  concerns of RFID technology of China’s second-gener ation national identification card  (2) personal data leaks of consumer information by  banks, insurance companies, and real  estate companies as China seeks to build consumer t rust in the modern banking and  financial system; (3) data protection for citizens  of countries engaged with China across  borders in electronic commerce and outsourcing; (4)  privacy compatibility with  multinational and regional organizations in a soft  power era; and (5) the changing  leadership generations with backgrounds in the “sof t sciences” of  history, economics,  management, business, journalism, and law.  These f actors may offer useful comparisons  for addressing the convergence of an international  framework for privacy laws and data  protection.                                                        1 This paper draft was originally submitted to the I nformation Privacy Law Scholars Conference, June  2010.  The author is currently revising the paper.  2      […]

China’s Pragmatic Privacy Law beyond APEC: Does Generational Culture Matter?  By Cheryl L. Brown   Associate Professor  Department of Political Science  University of North Carolina at Charlotte  [email protected]  Paper Draft 1  Please do not quote without permission    Abstract     Culture and tradition remain significant influences  in China’s conception of privacy and  implementation of data protection laws.  At the sam e time, the National People’s  Congress’ initiation of privacy protection consider ation reveals the prospect of evolving  laws emphasizing protection of data privacy based o n domestic and international  developments.  Although a growing literature focuse s on Internet filtering and social  networking mining, this paper will examine five fac tors influencing national and  international perspectives of China’s approach to p rivacy and data protection: (1) privacy  concerns of RFID technology of China’s second-gener ation national identification card  (2) personal data leaks of consumer information by  banks, insurance companies, and real  estate companies as China seeks to build consumer t rust in the modern banking and  financial system; (3) data protection for citizens  of countries engaged with China across  borders in electronic commerce and outsourcing; (4)  privacy compatibility with  multinational and regional organizations in a soft  power era; and (5) the changing  leadership generations with backgrounds in the “sof t sciences” of  history, economics,  management, business, journalism, and law.  These f actors may offer useful comparisons  for addressing the convergence of an international  framework for privacy laws and data  protection.                                                        1 This paper draft was originally submitted to the I nformation Privacy Law Scholars Conference, June  2010.  The author is currently revising the paper.  2      […]

  THE BOUNDARIES OF PRIVACY HARM    M. Ryan Calo *   A BSTRACT     This  Essay  describes  the  outer  boundaries  and  core  properties  of  privacy  harm, an important, unique, but chronically under-t heorized injury.  I argue  that  the  vast  majority  of  privacy  harms  fall  into  j ust  two  categories.    The  subjective  category  of  privacy  harm  is  the  unwanted   perception  of  observation.    This  category  describes  unwelcome  men […]

1 Accountability as the Basis for Regulating Privacy: Can Information Security Regulations Inform Privacy Policy? By Mary J. Culnan Slade Professor of Management and Information Technology IPM Department Bentley University [email protected] Ju ly 20, 2011 An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2011 Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Berkeley, CA., June 2 -3, […]

1 PRESERVING IDENTITIES: PROTECTING PERSONAL IDENTIFYING INFORMATION THROUGH ENHANCED PRIVACY POLICIES AND LAWS by Robert Sprague* and Corey Ciocchetti** “The common law has always recognized a man’s house as his castle . . . . Shall the courts thus close the front entrance to constituted authority, and open wide the back door to idle or […]

Radio Frequency Identification in Hospitals: Balancing Hospital Efficiency and Patient Privacy Christopher A. Suarez Yale Law School, USA This paper will appear in P ERSONAL DATA PRIVACY AND PROTECTION IN A SURVEILLANCE ERA : TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICES , edited by Christina Akrivopoulou and Athanasios Psygkas, Copyright 2010, IGI Global. Posted by permission of the publisher. […]

SECTION 2 IN A WEB 2.0 WORLD: AN EXPANDED VISION OF RELEVANT PRODUCT MARKETS PAMELA JONES H ARBOUR TARA ISA K OSLOV * Section 2 enforcement by the U.S. antitrust authorities is back—at least, that is what the antitrust enforcers themselves have been saying. 1 An examination of Section 2 enforcement principles could not be […]

Privacy: The New Generations Omer Tene* Privacy law in general, and informational privacy in particular, have always been closely linked to techno- logical development. In their seminal 1890 article ‘The Right to Privacy’, Warren and Brandeis lament the ‘[i]nstantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise [that] have invaded the sacred precincts of private and domestic life; and […]

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Communication Law Review47 Privacy: Ethical and Legal Considerations 1 Raphael Cohen-Almagor, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel 2 Abstract Privacy is commonly understood as insulation from observability, a value asserted by individuals against the demands of a curious and intrusive society. It is intimately associated with our most profound values, our understanding of what it means […]