This book is about data protection, privacy and liberty and the way these fundamental values of our societies are protected and enforced, particularly in their interaction with the ever developing capacities and possibilities of information and communication technologies.
The authors are all closely involved in data protection and privacy. They represent the stakeholders in the debate: practitioners, civil liberties advocates, civil servants, data protection commissioners and academics. Their contributions evaluate current European data protection law against the background of the introduction of increasingly powerful, miniaturized, ubiquitous and autonomic forms of computing. The book assesses data protection and privacy law by analyzing the actual problems (trans-border data flows, proportionality of the processing, and sensitive data) and identifying lacunae and bottlenecks, while at the same time looking at prospects for the future (web 2.0., RFID, profiling) and suggesting paths for a rethinking and reinvention of the fundamental principles and concepts.
From this perspective the recent constitutional acknowledgment of data protection as a fundamental right has a transformative power and should create the opportunity for a dynamic, participative, inductive and democratic process of ‘networked’ re-invention of data protection. The present book aims to make a contribution by seizing on this opportunity.
Author(s): P. De Hert, S. Gutwirth (auth.), Prof. Serge Gutwirth, Prof. Yves Poullet, Prof. Paul De Hert, Prof. Cécile de Terwangne, Dr. Sjaak Nouwt (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 342
Tags: European Law/Public International Law; Political Science; Interdisciplinary Studies
Front Matter....Pages I-XXIX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Data Protection in the Case Law of Strasbourg and Luxemburg: Constitutionalisation in Action....Pages 3-44
The Right to Informational Self-Determination and the Value of Self-Development: Reassessing the Importance of Privacy for Democracy....Pages 45-76
Data Protection as a Fundamental Right....Pages 77-82
Consent in Data Protection Law: Privacy, Fair Processing and Confidentiality....Pages 83-110
The Concepts of Identity and Identifiablity: Legal and Technical Deadlocks for Protecting Human Beings in the Information Society?....Pages 111-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Role of Trade Associations: Data Protection as a Negotiable Issue....Pages 125-129
The Role of Data Protection Authorities....Pages 131-137
The Role of Citizens: What Can Dutch, Flemish and English Students Teach Us About Privacy?....Pages 139-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Consent, Proportionality and Collective Power....Pages 157-173
Is a Global Data Protection Regulatory Model Possible?....Pages 175-189
Technical Standards as Data Protection Regulation....Pages 191-206
Privacy Actors, Performances and the Future of Privacy Protection....Pages 207-221
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
First Pillar and Third Pillar: Need for a Common Approach on Data Protection?....Pages 225-237
Who is Profiling Who? Invisible Visibility....Pages 239-252
Challenges in Privacy Advocacy....Pages 253-261
Developing an Adequate Legal Framework for International Data Transfers....Pages 263-273
Towards a Common European Approach to Data Protection: A Critical Analysis of Data Protection Perspectives of the Council of Europe and the European Union....Pages 275-292
Freedom of Information Versus Privacy: Friends or Foes?....Pages 293-316
Privacy Protection on the Internet: Risk Management and Networked Normativity....Pages 317-334
Back Matter....Pages 335-342
