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This chapter addresses privacy and legislation. It explains common categories of legal protection in most jurisdictions and surveys the internationally accepted privacy principles which form the basis of the law in most countries. Next, the most important interpretation rules by the courts are given and their applications to technology are discussed. Finally, the chapter gives an outlook on the future of privacy law.
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Terstegge, J. (2007). Privacy in the Law. In: Petković, M., Jonker, W. (eds) Security, Privacy, and Trust in Modern Data Management. Data-Centric Systems and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69861-6_2
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