Privacy on the Ground
  • Published: 28 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9780262552424
  • Imprint: MIT Press Academic
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $79.99

Privacy on the Ground

Driving Corporate Behavior in the United States and Europe

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An examination of corporate privacy management in the United States, Germany, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom, identifying international best practices and making policy recommendations.

An examination of corporate privacy management in the United States, Germany, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom, identifying international best practices and making policy recommendations.

Barely a week goes by without a new privacy revelation or scandal. Whether by hackers or spy agencies or social networks, violations of our personal information have shaken entire industries, corroded relations among nations, and bred distrust between democratic governments and their citizens. Polls reflect this concern, and show majorities for more, broader, and stricter regulation—to put more laws “on the books.” But there was scant evidence of how well tighter regulation actually worked “on the ground” in changing corporate (or government) behavior—until now.

This intensive five-nation study goes inside corporations to examine how the people charged with protecting privacy actually do their work, and what kinds of regulation effectively shape their behavior. And the research yields a surprising result. The countries with more ambiguous regulation—Germany and the United States—had the strongest corporate privacy management practices, despite very different cultural and legal environments. The more rule-bound countries—like France and Spain—trended instead toward compliance processes, not embedded privacy practices. At a crucial time, when Big Data and the Internet of Things are snowballing, Privacy on the Ground helpfully searches out the best practices by corporations, provides guidance to policymakers, and offers important lessons for everyone concerned with privacy, now and in the future.
  • Published: 28 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9780262552424
  • Imprint: MIT Press Academic
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $79.99
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Praise for Privacy on the Ground

"Gathering the insights of privacy leaders across the globe, Bamberger and Mulligan expose the anatomy of modern privacy practice. Their findings confirm many of our intuitions, and also reveal some surprises, about managing privacy inside a company. Here is an essential truth: how we define privacy and how we protect it emerge from the crucible of law, government infrastructure, civil discourse, and professional practice."
—Nicole A. Wong, former White House Deputy CTO for Internet, Privacy, and Innovation Policy; former Vice President and Deputy Counsel, Google; and former Legal Director for Products, Twitter

"A welcome contribution to the international debate on more effective privacy and personal data protection in the digital age."
—Peter Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor, 2004–2014

"Bamberger and Mulligan's meticulously researched book shows that we should not give up on privacy. The book drives home the reality that, although the US and EU systems take divergent approaches to protecting privacy, their aspirational goals are identical—to ensure that individuals have control over their personal information but also to allow businesses to innovate in ways that benefit consumers. As Bamberger and Mulligan make clear, it is time that the United States and the European Union recognize their shared heritage and goals, and work together to rectify the flaws that undermine privacy protection on both sides of the Atlantic. This is truly a must-read for anyone involved in privacy policy today—and tomorrow."
—Jon Leibowitz, former Chairman, Federal Trade Commission, and Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

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