Prominent privacy law experts, regulators and academics examine contemporary legal approaches to privacy from a comparative perspective.

Introduction: 1. Emerging challenges in privacy law: comparative perspectives Normann Witzleb, David Lindsay, Moira Paterson and Sharon Rodrick; Part I. Reforming the Data Protection Frameworks - Australian and EU Perspectives: 2. Privacy law reform: challenges and opportunities Timothy Pilgrim; 3. Responding to new challenges to privacy through law reform: a privacy advocate's perspective Nigel Waters; 4. The reform of EU data protection: towards more effective and more consistent data protection across the EU Peter Hustinx; Part II. Privacy in European Human Right Instruments: 5. Protection of privacy in the EU, individual rights and legal instruments Udo Fink; 6. A world data privacy treaty? 'Globalisation' and 'modernisation' of Council of Europe Convention 108 Graham Greenleaf; Part III. Privacy in Private Law - Common Law and Statutory Causes of Action: 7. Protection against intrusion in English legislation Nicole Moreham; 8. Privacy: common law or human right? Michael Tilbury; 9. English privacy law in the light of the Leveson report Eric Barendt; Part IV. Privacy, Surveillance and Control: 10. Surveillance in public places: the regulatory dilemma Moira Paterson; 11. Privacy and young people: controlling anti-social behaviour through loss of anonymity Thomas Crofts; Part V. Privacy and the Internet: 12. Data privacy law and the Internet: policy challenges Lee Bygrave; 13. The 'right to be forgotten' in European data protection law David Lindsay; 14. Privacy online: reform beyond law reform Megan Richardson and Andrew Kenyon; 15. Privacy protection and data clouds in Germany and the influence of European law Dieter Dörr and Eva Aernecke; Part VI. Privacy, the Courts and the Media: 16. Open justice, privacy and suppressing identity in legal proceedings: 'what's in a name?' And would anonymity 'smell as sweet'? Sharon Rodrick; 17. Interim injunctions for invasions of privacy: challenging the rule in Bonnard v. Perryman Normann Witzleb.