Regulating Privacy: Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States. (book reviews)

Colin Bennett's Regulating Privacy is really four books in one. First, it tells the story of a substantive issue--individual privacy rights in the age of information technology--and how that issue came to be addressed in the policymaking processes of four nations: Sweden, West Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Second, it examines public policymaking at two levels: the adoption of broad public policies for ensuring personal privacy from computerized recordkeeping and the selection of specific mechanisms to implement those policies. Third, it analyzes policy innovation ...

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