Asian Data Privacy Laws

Graham Greenleaf, Professor of Law & Information Systems, University of New South Wales

Graham Greenleaf is a Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he specialises in the relationships between information technology and law. He is a co-founder and Co-Director of the free-access Internet law service, the Australasian Legal Information Institute. In 2010 he took the lead in establishing the Asian Privacy Scholars Network. He was General Editor of the monthly Privacy Law and Policy Reporter 1994-2006, and since then has been Asia-Pacific Editor for Privacy Laws & Business International. He co-edited Global Privacy Protection (Edward Elgar, 2008) with J Rule. In 2010 he was made a member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his contributions to advancing free access to legal information, and to the protection of privacy.

Part I: Asia and International data privacy standards
1. Context and History of Data Privacy Laws in Asia
2. International structures affecting data privacy in Asia
3. Standards by which to assess a country's data privacy laws
Part II: National data privacy laws in Asia
4. Hong Kong SAR - New life for an established law
5. South Korea - The most innovative law
6. Taiwan - A stronger law, on a constitutional base
7. China - Convergence or Warring States?
8. Japan - The illusion of protection
9. Macau SAR - The 'Euro model'
10. Singapore: Uncertain scope - strong powers
11. Malaysia: ASEAN's first law in force
12. The Philippines & Thailand - ASEAN's incomplete comprehensive laws
13. Vietnam & Indonesia - ASEAN's sectoral laws
14. ASEAN - South-East Asia's other five states
15. India - Confusion Raj, with outsourcing
16. The other seven countries in South Asia (SAARC)
Regional Comparisons, Standards and Futures
17. Comparing protections and principles - Influences and originality
18. Assessing data privacy enforcement in Asia - Alternatives and evidence
19. International developments - Future prospects for Asia
20. Asian data privacy laws: Trajectories, lessons and optimism