'The Handbook of Privacy Studies' is the first book in the world that brings together several disciplinary perspectives on privacy, such as the legal, ethical, medical, informatics and anthropological perspective. Privacy is in the news almost every day: mass surveillance by intelligence agencies, the use of social media data for commercial profit and political microtargeting, password hacks and identity theft, new data protection regimes, questionable reuse of medical data, and concerns about how algorithms shape the way we think and decide. This book offers interdisciplinary background information about these developments and how to understand and properly evaluate them. The book is set up for use in interdisciplinary educational programmes. Each chapter provides a structured analysis of the role of privacy within that discipline, its characteristics, themes and debates, as well as current challenges. Disciplinary approaches are presented in such a way that students and researchers from every scientific background can follow the argumentation and enrich their own understanding of privacy issues. Introduction, Bart van der Sloot & Aviva de Groot 1. Privacy from a Historical Perspective, Sjoerd Keulen & Ronald Kroeze Legislating Privacy: Technology, Social Values, and Public Policy, Priscilla Regan 2. Privacy from a Legal Perspective, Bart van der Sloot Three Dimensions of Privacy, Beate Roessler 3. Privacy from an Ethical Perspective, Marijn Sax Nudging: A Very Short Guide, Cass R. Sunstein 4. Privacy from an Economic Perspective, Edo Roos Lindgreen Security, Privacy, and the Internet of Things (IoT), Mikko Hypponen 5. Privacy from an Informatics Perspective, Matthijs Koot & Cees de Laat Political Science and Privacy, Charles Raab 6. Privacy from an Intelligence Perspective, Willemijn Aerdts & Giliam de Valk A Privacy Doctrine for the Cyber Age, Amitai Etzioni 7. Privacy from an Archival Perspective, Tjeerd Schiphof Medical Privacy: Where Deontology and Consequentialism Meet, Robin Pierce 8. Privacy from a Medical Perspective, Wouter Koelewijn Privacy Law – on the Books and on the Ground, Kenneth A. Bamberger & Deirdre K. Mulligan 9. Privacy from a Media Studies Perspective, Jo Pierson & Ine Van Zeeland Diversity and Accountability in Data-Rich Markets, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger 10. Privacy from a Communication Science Perspective, Sandra Petronio Still Uneasy: a Life with Privacy, Anita LaFrance Allen 11. Privacy from an Anthropological Perspective, Sjaak van der Geest