Data protection has always been an important issue in technology. However, with the growing popularity of the Internet of Things and big data, it has caught the attention of people from different areas such as government and law. The editors have collected papers from the eighth annual International Conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP). Policy makers in different domains as well as technologists will appreciate this book.

It is not intended for beginners in data privacy issues. It is not a tutorial on data protection methods. It is about the recent advances in privacy and data protection.

The book is organized into 17 chapters; each chapter is a paper. Each paper starts with a discussion of the problem and surveys the relevant literature briefly. According to the type of paper, the presented information varies. Some papers present a novel method to address a known problem, while some papers list case studies. As the authors of the papers are affiliated with international institutions, there is valuable information about privacy practices in the EU versus the US, as well as different opinions.

The book includes a discussion of various privacy practices. In addition, it also serves as documentation of the CPDP 2015 conference. There is a lot of information about big companies’ privacy policies, including Google and Facebook. The researchers’ insight is very valuable.

This book will help technologists and policy makers follow the recent advances in this area and gain an understanding of data privacy issues.