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The Accountability Approach to Privacy and Data Protection: Assumptions and Caveats

The notion of ‘accountability’ is currently fashionable within the community of scholars, regulators, and activists concerned with privacy and data protection. At one level, it has always been a central principle within these laws and policies, and is implicit if not explicit in every attempt to make organisations more responsible for the personal data they collect and process. At one level, there is nothing new.

Colin J. Bennett

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