Privacy and the Information Age

Serge Gutwirth is professor of law at the Free University of Brussels and the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The Rathenau Institute, the Dutch national technology assessment organization, is an independent organization and is one of the institutes of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Privacy's ComplexitiesChapter 3 The Law on PrivacyChapter 4 Ambiguous PrivacyChapter 5 Privacy EndangeredChapter 6 Privacy and the Processing of Personal DataChapter 7 ConclusionChapter 8 Appendix: The European Community Directive on Personal DataChapter 9 BibliographyChapter 10 Index

Serge Gutwirth impressively draws on Dutch, German, French, and English language sources to develop a strong argument regarding the centrality of privacy to personal freedom and the challenges to that sacred connection posed by new, and increasingly omniscient, information technologies. A most welcome addition to the comparative literature on privacy and technology.