000048120 001__ 48120 000048120 003__ SzGeWIPO 000048120 005__ 20230531201421.0 000048120 006__ m eo d 000048120 007__ cr bn |||m|||a 000048120 008__ 230530s2023 enk o 001 0 eng 000048120 020__ $$a9780191981869$$qeBook 000048120 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1357036136 000048120 040__ $$aSzGeWIPO$$beng$$erda$$cSzGeWIPO$$dCaBNVSL 000048120 041__ $$aeng 000048120 1001_ $$aYilma, Kinfe,$$eauthor. 000048120 24510 $$aPrivacy and the Role of International Law in the Digital Age. 000048120 264_1 $$aOxford :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2023 000048120 300__ $$a1 online resource 000048120 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000048120 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000048120 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 000048120 5203_ $$aThis book examines the role of international law in securing privacy and data protection in the digital age. Driven mainly by the transnational nature of privacy threats involving private actors as well as States, calls are increasingly made for an ‘international’ privacy framework to meet these challenges. Mapped against a flurry of global privacy initiatives, the book explores the extent to which and whether international law attends to the complexities of upholding digital privacy. It does so in three levels. First, the book interrogates boundaries of international privacy law in upholding privacy and data protection in the digital ecosystem where threats to privacy are increasingly transnational, sophisticated, and privatized. It demonstrates that shackled by a host of normative and structural setbacks, international law offers weak protections to privacy and data protection. Second, the book explores the potential of global privacy initiatives, namely Internet bills of rights, universalization of regional systems of data privacy protection, and the multi-level privacy discourse at the United Nations, in reimagining the normative contours of international privacy law. It finds that none of the global privacy initiatives will effectively address structural shortcomings of international law. Third, the book proposes a pragmatic approach to the international law of privacy that could make it better-equipped in the digital age. Drawing on the catalytic potential of global privacy initiatives, the book lays out a set of reform ideas that could help address the major normative and institutional blind spots in international privacy law. 000048120 588__ $$aOnline resource 000048120 650_0 $$aData protection$$xLaw and legislation. 000048120 650_0 $$aPrivacy, Right of. 000048120 650_0 $$aInternet$$xLaw and legislation. 000048120 830_0 $$aOxford data protection & privacy law 000048120 85641 $$uhttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192887290.001.0001$$yView eBook 000048120 903__ $$aOxford Academic 000048120 980__ $$aOS