Five Years of the Apec Privacy Framework: Failure or Promise?

@inproceedings{Greenleaf2009FiveYO,
  title={Five Years of the Apec Privacy Framework: Failure or Promise?},
  author={Graham Greenleaf},
  booktitle={Comput. Law Secur. Rev.},
  year={2009}
}
  • G. Greenleaf
  • Published in Comput. Law Secur. Rev. 30 June 2009
  • Political Science
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