Online Privacy - No Longer Playing Catch-up?

March 2014

Abstract

It may come to pass that 2013 will be regarded as the year that the general public sat up and took notice of online privacy. The Australian Information Commissioner advised earlier this year that “2013 is shaping up to be the biggest year for privacy in over 20 years”. As the year drew to a close, a number of major publications including the New York Times, Forbes and the Guardian heralded 2013 as a pivotal moment in the evolution of privacy, particularly online. Dictionary.com went so far as to name privacy as its “word of the year”.

Author

David Carrington

Corporate Counsel, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Australia

David is Assistant General Counsel at Neustar, based in Melbourne. He previously worked at Bombora Technologies before it was acquired by Neustar. He also worked at Schillings, the London law firm specialising in privacy, and as in-house counsel at the BBC and Channel Four Television where he advised on broadcast and online defamation and privacy issues.

Company

Mornington Peninsula Shire

Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) is the first real-time provider of cloud-based information services and data analytics, enabling marketing and IT security professionals to promote and protect their businesses. With a commitment to privacy and neutrality, Neustar operates complex data registries and uses its expertise to deliver actionable, data-driven insights that help clients make high-value business decisions in real time, one customer interaction at a time.

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