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Introductory Essay for "Privacy Law Year in Review, 2005-2006"
Peter Swire
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Abstract
This essay introduces our second issue of Privacy Law Year in Review. In preparing this essay, I was struck by the sheer volume of privacy law developments. Major topics in each annual volume are: government information collection; financial privacy; medical privacy; privacy on the Internet and in commercial databases; and privacy internationally. The volume also includes two special topics that have not been the subject of previous publication: a crosssectoral review of auditing for privacy and a systematic analysis of the privacy laws of California, the state that has become a major source of U.S. privacy laws. The essay first briefly describes the nature of Privacy Law Year in Review. It then provides a summary, in fewer than 2,500 words, of privacy law developments in 2005-2006.