PurposeThis paper aims to uncover the practices of different privacy auditors to reveal the extent of any similarities in such practices. The purpose is to investigate the drivers of practices used by privacy auditors and to identify potential for improvements in the practice of privacy auditing...

The data transfer model and the accountability model, which are the dominant models for protecting the data privacy rights of citizens, have begun to present significant difficulties in regulating the online and increasingly transnational business environment. Global organisations take advantage...

This article examines the threat to privacy posed by the transfer of personal information from one jurisdiction to another. Despite international trends towards greater protection of personal information significant challenges to personal privacy arise in this context. These include the use of...

This article examines the threat to privacy posed by the transfer of personal information from one jurisdiction to another. Despite international trends towards greater protection of personal information, significant challenges to personal privacy arise in this context. These include the use of...

The United States has led technological innovation in the Internet space. New business models and practices, including social networking and search engines, have proliferated, based on the use of personal information. The adequacy of the United States regime governing data privacy in this new...

This article explores whether design of enforcement mechanisms in data privacy laws influences the types of privacy harms addressed by them through evaluating evidence of enforcement from four jurisdictions. It uses three of the foundational design principles identified by Cavoukian to examine...