Chapter 9 examines how new forms of information privacy law could develop to interrupt modulated forms of power. It highlights some design points for future legal reform. The design points outline some key areas that would allow reforms to develop based on Julie Cohen’s work. The implementation of these principles would require some form of detachment from information privacy’s core process protections, so the law could apply in gaps and spaces at the outskirts of process. These gaps and spaces are important because this is where selfhood flourishes and would therefore be a prime target for modulated forms of data collection. The design points would allow protection of gaps and spaces through the construction of new boundary options that create pauses in seamless forms of data collection and analysis. All of this would assist in information privacy law’s new role in exposing modulation. The chapter contends that a greater focus on relational forms of personal information is needed along with a collection principle based on fairness. New legal vocabularies and new ways of incentivising value discourse, as well as compliance orientations, in data collecting institutions are required.

Chapter 6 investigates the different foundational structures and jurisdictional perspectives of information privacy law that involve EU, US and Australian legal frameworks. A historical perspective of information privacy law developments in each jurisdiction is provided based on three founding legal instruments for each jurisdiction. Historical development is important because it highlights that, although different jurisdictional laws are based on the same principled approach, different jurisdictions adopt different emphases. Two particularly emphases are examined: the type of regulated information that triggers regulatory response, namely, personally identifiable information in the US, and personal data in the EU and personal information in Australia. Information privacy law’s principled process of protection is also examined. Attention is given to collection principles as a means of outlining foundational differences between sectoral and comprehensive regimes of information privacy, particularly regarding the overt use of a notice and consent model.