Asian Data Privacy Laws

Trade & Human Rights Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-967966-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 622 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 1240 g

The first work to examine data privacy laws across Asia, covering all 26 countries and separate jurisdictions, and with in-depth analysis of the 14 which have specialised data privacy laws. Professor Greenleaf demonstrates the increasing world-wide significance of data privacy and the international context of the development of national data privacy laws as well as assessing the laws, their powers and their enforcement against international standards. The book also contains a web link to an update to mid-2017.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenleaf, Graham

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Allgemeines Informationsrecht, Datenschutzrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: ASIA AND INTERNATIONAL DATA PRIVACY STANDARDS

- 1: Data Privacy Laws in Asia - Context and History

- 2: International Structures Affecting Data Privacy in Asia

- 3: Standards by Which to Assess a Country's Data Privacy Laws

- Part II: NATIONAL DATA PRIVACY LAWS IN ASIA

- 4: Hong Kong SAR - New Life for an Established Law

- 5: South Korea - The Most Innovative Law

- 6: Taiwan - A Stronger Law, on a Constitutional Base

- 7: China - From Warring States to Convergence?

- 8: Japan - The Illusion of Protection

- 9: Macau SAR - The 'Euro Model'

- 10: Singapore: Uncertain Scope, Strong Powers

- 11: Malaysia: ASEAN's First Data Privacy Law in Force

- 12: The Philippines and Thailand - ASEAN's Incomplete Comprehensive Laws

- 13: Vietnam and Indonesia - ASEAN's Sectoral Laws

- 14: Privacy in the Other Five South-East Asian (ASEAN) States

- 15: India - Confusion Raj, with Outsourcing

- 16: Privacy in the Other Seven South Asian (SAARC) States

- PART III: COMPARISON STANDARDS, AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

- 17: Comparing Protections and Principles - an Asian Privacy Standard?

- 18: Assessing Data Privacy Enforcement in Asia - Alternatives and Evidence

- 19: International Developments - Future Prospects for Asia

- 20: Asian Data Privacy Laws: Trajectories, Lessons and Optimism

Über Autor(innen)

Graham Greenleaf is a Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he specialises in the relationships between information technology and law. He is a co-founder and Co-Director of the free-access Internet law service, the Australasian Legal Information Institute. In 2010 he took the lead in establishing the Asian Privacy Scholars Network. He was General Editor of the monthly Privacy Law and Policy Reporter 1994-2006, and since then has been Asia-Pacific Editor for Privacy Laws & Business International Report. He co-edited Global Privacy Protection (Edward Elgar, 2008) with J Rule. In 2010 he was made a member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his contributions to advancing free access to legal information and to the protection of privacy.