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Achieving Personal Data Protection in the European Union

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  • Graham Pearce
  • Nicholas Platten

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Actions aimed at exploiting the benefits of information and communication technologies have become a major focus of European Community (EC) policy.The new technologies offer considerable benefits to consumers, businesses and governments, but there is growing concern that their widespread use may threaten the privacy of personal information. Increases in transborder data flows, within the EC and globally, imply that a EC‐wide, and ultimately a global, approach is more appropriate than one based upon national rules. This article examines the evolution of EC personal data protection policies and concludes that, whilst considerable progress has been made towards establishing a regulatory framework, advances in technology and continuing variations in national responses seeking to protect personal privacy, are major obstacles to achieving data protection equivalence, both within the EC and in third countries.

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  • Graham Pearce & Nicholas Platten, 1998. "Achieving Personal Data Protection in the European Union," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 36(4), pages 529-547, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jcmkts:v:36:y:1998:i:4:p:529-547
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-5965.00138
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    1. Lengwiler, Martin, 2004. "Privacy, justice and equality: The history of privacy legislation and its significance for civil society," Discussion Papers, Working Group Civil Society: Historical and Comparative Perspectives SP IV 2004-503, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    2. Woojeong Jang & Abraham L. Newman, 2022. "Enforcing European Privacy Regulations from Below: Transnational Fire Alarms and the General Data Protection Regulation," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 60(2), pages 283-300, March.

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