Thus the United Kingdom, the home of common law, has adopted legislation establishing a data protection registrar, with powers and responsibilities remarkably like those of the CNIL in France. The contribution of common law to the protection of privacy was, for a long time, the fertile development of specific rights by US judges. That development is still useful, but civil law institutions have been more prominent recently, particularly in the field of data protection. There is no single ideal legal method of protecting the complex of values under the privacy label, and, with careful adjustments and nurturing, institution can be transplanted from one legal traditional to another.