The Privacy Law Sourcebook is the leading resource for students, attorneys, researchers, and journalists interested in privacy law in the United States and around the world. It includes the full text of major privacy laws and directives such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Privacy Act, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the Right to Financial Privacy Act, the Privacy Protection Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Video Privacy Protection Act, the OECD Privacy Guidelines, the OECD Cryptography Guidelines, and European Union Data Directives for both Data Protection and Privacy and Electronic Communications.

The Privacy Law Sourcebook is updated and expanded for 2004. New materials include the APEC Privacy Framework, the Video Voyeurism Prevention Act, the CAN-SPAM Act, and reports from the Article 29 Working Group on data protection issues related to intellectual property rights, radio frequency identification, enforcement, and spam. Also included is an extensive section on privacy resources with useful Web sites and contact information for privacy agencies, organizations, and publications.

"The 'Physicians Desk Reference' of the privacy world." Evan Hendricks, Privacy Times

"This is a handy compilation of privacy law instruments and a 'must' for anyone seeking guidance about the location and content of the key statutes, treaties, and recent developments." American Society of International Law

"The Privacy Law Sourcebook belongs front and center on the desk of every Information Age lawyer. It provides an indispensable map to the maze that is modern privacy law." Prof. Paul M. Schwartz, Brooklyn Law School