Perspectives on Privacy ─ Increasing Regulation in the USA, Canada, Australia and European Countries

Legal scholars from the various jurisdictions examine such patterns of privacy as: privacy and the Fourth Amendment; the European approach towards data protection in a globalized world of data transfer; whether the new general data protection regulation of the European Union widen the gap between Europe and the US; the Google autocomplete function and the German general right of personality; the cross-border transfer of personal information: evolving privacy regulation in Europe and Australia; and employee monitoring and surveillance under Australian law: the need for workplace privacy legislation. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Dieter Dorr, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Mainz; Russell L. Weaver,
University of Louisville, USA.