Asian Data Privacy Laws, Trade and Human Rights Perspective, by Graham Greenleaf
Asian Data Privacy Laws, Trade and Human Rights Perspective, by Graham Greenleaf
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亚洲数据隐私法、贸易和人权视角，作者：Graham Greenleaf
DOI：
10.1093/ijlit/eav012
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2015
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Alex B. Makulilo
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作者：
Alex B. Makulilo
这本624页的精装本《亚洲数据隐私法》是我开始从事隐私法讨论以来所见过的同类书籍。这本书是由澳大利亚著名的隐私法教授格雷厄姆·格林里夫（Graham Greenleaf）撰写的。作为第一个观察，三个关键因素使《亚洲数据隐私法》成为一本独特的书，因此不仅是亚洲而且是世界其他地区的政策制定者、从业者、研究人员和数据隐私法学生的必读之书。第一个要素是关于这本书的方法和处理的主题。Greenleaf展开了一项比较法律的研究，以研究26个亚洲司法管辖区的国家隐私法。事实上，这是第一本详细介绍了许多国家隐私法的隐私法书籍。拜格雷夫警告说，对特定国家或文化尊重隐私的程度进行准确的比较充满了困难，这个问题显然会影响到对各国隐私和数据保护法律的制度的比较评估。[1]他还认为，这种困难部分是由于缺乏系统收集的经验数据，部分是由于每个国家或文化对隐私的关注往往不均衡。事实上，这种谨慎在很大程度上解释了数据隐私领域比较隐私法文献的稀缺性。然而，Greenleaf已经超越了这种谨慎，正是这一特点使《亚洲数据隐私法》成为一本独特的书。其次，亚洲数据隐私法在许多其他方面也与以前的隐私法书籍不同。这本书不仅关注规范隐私的法律文本。Greenleaf分析了这样的隐私法，考虑到每个司法管辖区的政治，社会经济和监视环境，以及这些如何为隐私法改革及其实践提供信息。他指出，在研究亚洲国家的隐私问题时，不仅必须优先考虑国家法律，而且每个国家的民主和法治状况也可能压倒其他国家。
The 624-page hardback Asian Data Privacy Laws is a book of its kind I have ever come across since I started to engage myself in the privacy law discourse. The book is written by Graham Greenleaf, a prominent Australian privacy law professor. As a first observation, three key elements make Asian Data Privacy Laws a distinct book hence a must read by policy makers, practitioners, researchers and students of data privacy law not only in Asia but also in other regions of the world. The first element is about the book’s approach and treatment of the subject. Greenleaf deploys a comparative legal research to study national privacy laws of 26 Asian jurisdictions. Indeed, this is the first privacy law book that has covered in detail many national privacy laws. Bygrave cautions that making accurate comparisons of the degree to which given countries or cultures respect privacy is fraught with difficulty—a problem that obviously carries over into comparative assessment of various countries’ legal regimes for privacy and data protection. 1 He further argues that such difficulty is partly due to paucity of systematically collected empirical data and partly to the fact that concern for privacy within each country or culture is often uneven. 2 Indeed, this caution largely explains the scarcity of comparative privacy law literature across the field of data privacy. Yet, Greenleaf has outlived this caution and it is this feature that makes Asian Data Privacy Laws a distinct book. Secondly, Asian Data PrivacyLaws departs from previous privacy law books in many other aspects too. The book does not only focus on the text of the law regulating privacy. Greenleaf has analysed such privacy law taking into account the political, socio-economic and surveillance contexts of each jurisdiction and how these have informed the privacy law reform and its practice. He observes that it is not only national laws that must be given priority in a study of privacy in Asian countries, but also the situation regarding democracy and the rule of law in each country which can overwhelm other