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5 - What Information Privacy Protects

from Part II - Information Privacy Law’s Concepts and Application

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2020

Mark Burdon
Affiliation:
Queensland University of Technology
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Chapter 5 provides a conceptual overview of information privacy law to examine what it seeks to protect. Different concepts of information privacy provide alternative ideas about what its legal manifestations should protect. Moreover, information privacy concepts are themselves permeated, and permeate, broader concepts of privacy. The chapter identifies four conceptual themes that underpin information privacy’s development through coverage of key authors: Individual control over personal information; informational access and personal autonomous growth; a broader social and relational context; and privacy as a structural problem of power. The control concept is dominant as evident by its implementation as information privacy law. However, all themes are important regarding a stronger role for information privacy’s relational context and power-related elements.

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Print publication year: 2020

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  • What Information Privacy Protects
  • Mark Burdon, Queensland University of Technology
  • Book: Digital Data Collection and Information Privacy Law
  • Online publication: 04 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108283717.005
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  • What Information Privacy Protects
  • Mark Burdon, Queensland University of Technology
  • Book: Digital Data Collection and Information Privacy Law
  • Online publication: 04 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108283717.005
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  • What Information Privacy Protects
  • Mark Burdon, Queensland University of Technology
  • Book: Digital Data Collection and Information Privacy Law
  • Online publication: 04 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108283717.005
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