New Dimensions in Privacy Law

Director of the Centre for Media and Communications Law at the University of Melbourne. Deputy Director of the Centre for Media and Communications Law, University of Melbourne.

• 1. New dimensions in privacy: communications technologies, media practices and law Andrew T. Kenyon and Megan Richardson; 2. Privacy and freedom of speech Eric Barendt; 3. Revisiting the American action for public disclosure of private facts Brian C. Murchison; 4. The internet and the private life in Europe: risks and aspirations Yves Poullet and J. Marc Dinant; 5. APEC's privacy framework sets a new low standard for the Asia-Pacific Graham Greenleaf; 6. Copyright, privacy and Digital Rights Management (DRM) David Lindsay and Sam Ricketson; 7. Why there will never be an English common law privacy tort Raymond Wacks; 8. The 'right' of privacy in England and Strasbourg compared Gavin Phillipson; 9. Privacy and constitutions Kenneth J. Keith; 10. Celebrity privacy and benefits of simple history Megan Richardson and Lesley Hitchens; Bibliography.

Review of the hardback: '… the book represents a serious contribution to a debate which is guaranteed to run for a while yet.' The Commonwealth Lawyer