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Citation
Deirdre Mulligan. "Privacy in Europe: Initial Data on Governance Choices and Corporate Practices". Talk or presentation, 9, October, 2013.

Abstract
Our “on the ground” project uses qualitative empirical inquiry—including interviews with, and questionnaires completed by, corporate privacy officers, regulators, and other actors within the privacy field in three European countries, France, Germany and Spain, to identify the ways in which privacy protection is implemented in different jurisdictions, and the combination of social, market, and regulatory forces that drive these choices. It thus offers a comparative “in-the-wild” assessment of the effects of the different regulatory approaches adopted by these three countries. In the face of novel challenges to privacy, leveraging the adaptability of distinct regulatory approaches and institutions has never been more important. As technological and social change has altered the generation and use of data, the definition of privacy that has prevailed in the political sphere—individual control over the disclosure and use of personal information—has increasingly lost its salience. In particular, the common instruments of protection generated by this definition—procedural mechanisms to protect individual “choice”—have offered an inapt paradigm for privacy protection in the face of data ubiquity and computing capacity. In developing new metrics for protecting privacy, policymakers must take into account a far more granular, and bottom-up, analysis of both differences in national practice and the forces on the ground that result in the diffusion—or lack thereof—of corporate structures and institutions that research suggests are most adaptive in protecting privacy in the face of change.

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  Deirdre Mulligan. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/923.html"
  ><i>Privacy in Europe: Initial Data on Governance
  Choices and Corporate Practices</i></a>, Talk or
  presentation,  9, October, 2013.

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  Deirdre Mulligan. "Privacy in Europe: Initial Data on
  Governance Choices and Corporate Practices". Talk or
  presentation,  9, October, 2013.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{Mulligan13_PrivacyInEuropeInitialDataOnGovernanceChoicesCorporate,
      author = {Deirdre Mulligan},
      title = {Privacy in Europe: Initial Data on Governance
                Choices and Corporate Practices},
      day = {9},
      month = {October},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {Our �on the ground� project uses qualitative
                empirical inquiry�including interviews with, and
                questionnaires completed by, corporate privacy
                officers, regulators, and other actors within the
                privacy field in three European countries, France,
                Germany and Spain, to identify the ways in which
                privacy protection is implemented in different
                jurisdictions, and the combination of social,
                market, and regulatory forces that drive these
                choices. It thus offers a comparative
                �in-the-wild� assessment of the effects of the
                different regulatory approaches adopted by these
                three countries. In the face of novel challenges
                to privacy, leveraging the adaptability of
                distinct regulatory approaches and institutions
                has never been more important. As technological
                and social change has altered the generation and
                use of data, the definition of privacy that has
                prevailed in the political sphere�individual
                control over the disclosure and use of personal
                information�has increasingly lost its salience.
                In particular, the common instruments of
                protection generated by this
                definition�procedural mechanisms to protect
                individual �choice��have offered an inapt
                paradigm for privacy protection in the face of
                data ubiquity and computing capacity. In
                developing new metrics for protecting privacy,
                policymakers must take into account a far more
                granular, and bottom-up, analysis of both
                differences in national practice and the forces on
                the ground that result in the diffusion�or lack
                thereof�of corporate structures and institutions
                that research suggests are most adaptive in
                protecting privacy in the face of change.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/923.html}
  }
  

Posted by Carolyn Winter on 18 Nov 2013.
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