Cross-Border Data Flows and Increased Enforcement

The term "privacy" is subject to many definitions and descriptions. Privacy is the subjective condition people experience when they have the power to control information about themselves and when they exercise that power consistent with their interests and values. The EU Data Protection Directive takes a somewhat different tack and defines personal data as data relating to an identified or identifiable individual, and then allocates a series of rights to the individual regarding the data, particularly regarding notice, consent, and other principles intended to grant an individual reasonable control over the data.