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Privacy and Data Protection: IT Law
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IT Law (Public Law Aspects) Seminar 4: Privacy and Data Protection Seminar Paper: The matter of transfer of personal data to a third country particularly in relation to the differences between the EU and the US; The Safe Harbor Principle Teacher: Dr. Gerrit Betlem and Mr. Martin Truman Student: Katharina v. Boehm-Bezing I. Introduction 1.) An old issue, growing in importance Searching the web, one can see that privacy on the Internet is a big issue. Countless US or EU based human rights initiatives are fighting for the right to privacy. What is the reason for this? Although concerns about consumers' ability to protect their privacy have been in existence for decades, the Internet makes the issue more delicate: Businesses have access to a larger audience, which allows them to collect more data from more people. Furthermore, collection of more specific behavioural information is possible attaching cookies to a hard drive, reporting which websites someone enters.1 In addition,...
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