Professor Yves Poullet, Director of the Centre for Information and Law (CRID) of the University of Namur, Belgium, commences this issue of CLSR with a major contribution of critical thinking to the ongoing debate about the regulation of privacy and data protection. All too frequently policy makers step in with proposals to move to the next stage of regulation without stepping back to consider the implications of what they are actually doing. This refreshing analysis takes that step backwards and asks pointed questions about the meaning of privacy, the perceived trends and some caveats concerning the future direction of regulation.
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