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Thomas Ruddy is an American-born political scientist living in Germany. He recently retired from EMPA Swiss Federal Research. His publications are listed at http://publicationslist.org/thomas.ruddy In the area of privacy, for instance, he has published on data handling by Anglo-American credit-scoring companies in a journal on surveillance studies. Financial data is also a focus of the Wiki he manages on Privacy in E-Governance and Senior Users' Security (PEGASUS), www.thomasruddy.eu His most recent publication is “Regimes Governing the Re-Use of Personal Data in the US and the EU: A Primer on Mass Surveillance and Trade”, which includes a clickable bibliography http://ruddyconsult.tripod.com/bibliog.htm