JAEGER, Paul T

The structures of centralized governmental privacy protection : approaches, models, and analysis - 2002

This article asserts that the United States federal government should adopt a centralized governmental structure for the privacy protection of personal information and data. There are a number of significant reasons, ranging from faciliation of the interantional dealings of United States corporations to the interactions of the United States government with other governments, for creating a centralized privacy protection structure for the United States federal government. This article examines the rise of centralized governmental privacy protection structures, identifies reasons for addopting such structures, and analyszes a selection of the structures used by various nations and states at present. From this structures. These models then form the basis of a discussion of what type of structural models of privacy protection would be most appropriate for the U.S. federal government