Privacy is dead, long live privacy! Breach of confidence and information privacy: towards a more progressive action for breach of confidence?
Privacy is dead, long live privacy! Breach of confidence and information privacy: towards a more progressive action for breach of confidence?
As we step out of the traditional intimate and secluded private sphere to take up our virtual lives on the net and socialize on Facebook or Twitter after having shopped on Amazon or eBay, privacy seems to wither away. But does it mean that Internet users be they “digital natives” or “digital immigrants” just need to go over it once and for all? Paradoxically such a renunciation is advocated at the very time when judges are extending the remit of British privacy law. Does it mean then that privacy law only protects the interests of few famous users? While recent developments may be interpreted in this sense, this article seeks to explain why privacy law should not be dropped too quickly. Indeed it may well be that the British action for breach of confidence is mutating to become an instrument of its own to secure information privacy. This shift from the seclusion of intimate spheres to the empowering of individuals while acting in an intermediate sphere is likely to make the action for breach of confidence a more “democratic” regulatory instrument finally of interest to the “ordinary” people
978-87-991385-9-3
Stalla-Bourdillon, Sophie
c189651b-9ed3-49f6-bf37-25a47c487164
2011
Stalla-Bourdillon, Sophie
c189651b-9ed3-49f6-bf37-25a47c487164
Stalla-Bourdillon, Sophie
(2011)
Privacy is dead, long live privacy! Breach of confidence and information privacy: towards a more progressive action for breach of confidence?
In,
Kierkegaard, Sylvia
(ed.)
Law Across Nations: Governance, Policy & Statutes.
IAITL.
Record type:
Book Section
Abstract
As we step out of the traditional intimate and secluded private sphere to take up our virtual lives on the net and socialize on Facebook or Twitter after having shopped on Amazon or eBay, privacy seems to wither away. But does it mean that Internet users be they “digital natives” or “digital immigrants” just need to go over it once and for all? Paradoxically such a renunciation is advocated at the very time when judges are extending the remit of British privacy law. Does it mean then that privacy law only protects the interests of few famous users? While recent developments may be interpreted in this sense, this article seeks to explain why privacy law should not be dropped too quickly. Indeed it may well be that the British action for breach of confidence is mutating to become an instrument of its own to secure information privacy. This shift from the seclusion of intimate spheres to the empowering of individuals while acting in an intermediate sphere is likely to make the action for breach of confidence a more “democratic” regulatory instrument finally of interest to the “ordinary” people
This record has no associated files available for download.
More information
Published date: 2011
Additional Information:
Due for publication 2012
Organisations:
Faculty of Business, Law and Art
Identifiers
Local EPrints ID: 201445
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/201445
ISBN: 978-87-991385-9-3
PURE UUID: 463e12a8-c98a-46b5-86db-04a797bfdf4d
Catalogue record
Date deposited: 28 Oct 2011 14:21
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 04:30
Export record
Contributors
Editor:
Sylvia Kierkegaard
Download statistics
Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.
View more statistics
