Personal Information: Privacy and the Law

by Raymond Wacks

Since the famous Warren and Brandeis essay nearly a century ago, the confusion generated by the traditional account of "privacy" continues to obstruct its satisfactory legal protection. Looking at the issues of breach of confidence, public disclosure of private facts, collection and
computerization of personal data, and electronic or other intrusions on individual privacy, Wacks here presents a less obscure, alternative analysis of privacy that is centered on the use and misuse of "personal information" about an individual.

354 pages, Hardcover

First published July 13, 1989

About the author

Raymond Wacks is Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory at the University of Hong Kong, where he was Head of the Department of Law from 1986 to 1993. He was previously Professor of Public Law and Head of the Department of Public Law at the University of Natal in Durban. He has lived in Italy since taking early retirement in 2002.