The regulation of personal information has become an important political topic mainly due to technological innovations and their proliferation in advanced industrial societies. Developments in telecommunications and computerisation have massively increased the availability of personal date, while storage costs have been drastically reduced.

This political science project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and undertaken at the University of Oxford, intends to help close that gap by studying three policy issues (CCTV cameras, RFID chips, biometric ID cards and passports) across a sample of four countries (UK, US, Germany, Sweden).

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Andreas Busch and Michael Koss