The book presents timely and needed contributions on privacy and data
protection seals as seen from general, legal, policy, economic,
technological, and societal perspectives. It covers data protection
certification in the EU (i.e., the possibilities, actors and building
blocks); the Schleswig-Holstein Data Protection Seal; the French Privacy
Seal Scheme; privacy seals in the USA, Europe, Japan, Canada, India and
Australia; controversies, challenges and lessons for privacy seals; the
potential for privacy seals in emerging technologies; and an economic
analysis. This book is particularly relevant in the EU context, given
the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) impetus to data protection
certification mechanisms and the dedication of specific provisions to
certification. Its coverage of practices in jurisdictions outside the EU
also makes it relevant globally.
This book will appeal to European legislators and policy-makers, privacy
and data protection practitioners, certification bodies, international
organisations, and academics.
Rowena Rodrigues is a Senior Research Analyst with Trilateral
Research Ltd. in London and Vagelis Papakonstantinou is a Senior
Researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels.