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Other authors / contributors: | Litan, Robert E.
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ISBN: | 0815718713 9780815718710
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Notes: | Description based upon print version of record.
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Summary: | The historic European Union Directive on Data Protection will take effect in October 1998. A key provision will prohibit transfer of personal information from Europe to other countries if they lack ""adequate"" protection of privacy. If enforced as written, the Directive could create enormous obstacles to commerce between Europe and other countries, such as the United States, that do not have comprehensive privacy statutes. In this book, Peter Swire and Robert Litan provide the first detailed analysis of the sector-by-sector effects of the Directive. They examine such topics as the text of the.
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Other form: | Print version: Swire, Peter P. None of Your Business : World Data Flows, Electronic Commerce, and the European Privacy Directive Washington : Brookings Institution Press,c2010 9780815782391
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