Regulating privacy: Vocabularies of motive in legislating right of access to criminal records in Sweden

Computers, Privacy and Data Protection: an Element of Choice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 111-137

  Backman, Christel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0641-5_6     Document Type: Chapter

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