Organisations need to obtain prior consent for sending commercial emails or text messages in Canada.

This paper contributes to the debate about the adequacy of the United States’ fragmented, networked, federal system of privacy protection, an outlier among modern industrialized Western democracies, by taking the perspective ...

A thorough review of the 1980 OECD Guidelines is not necessary, argues Colin Bennett. While there are differences, considerable commonalities between national laws exist.

The rapid expansion of digital networking and especially the Internet over the past two decades has been a boon for the many informationally intensive activities that facilitate and increasingly constitute contemporary ...

As political parties in the US and Europe use ever more sophisticated targeting techniques, Colin J. Bennett asks what is the appropriate balance between privacy and the values of democratic education and participation.

In every advanced industrial society, there exist disparate groups who have tried to spotlight excessive levels of surveillance, online and offline. They have protested ID cards, video-surveillance programs, intrusive ...

This paper surveys the various voter surveillance practices recently observed in the United States, assesses the extent to which they have been adopted in other democratic countries, and discusses the broad implications ...

Nombre de Canadiens savent que les organismes du gouvernement s’adonnent à de la surveillance de masse en utilisant les données téléphoniques et électroniques. Néanmoins, peu d’entre eux sont réellement conscients de ...