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Data Protection in a Profiled World

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Editors:
  1. Serge Gutwirth

    1. Law, Science, Technology & Society, (LSTS), Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Bruxelles, Belgium

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  2. Yves Poullet

    1. Research Centre for Information, Technology & Law, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium

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  3. Paul De Hert

    1. Center for Law, Science, Technology, and Society Studies (LSTS), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

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  • High calibre, cutting-edge contributions

  • Daring new approaches to the controversial issues of privacy, social networks and electonic voting

  • Expansive exploration of the EU approach to data protection

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-22
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  2. Generic Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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  4. Specific Issues: Security Breaches, Unsolicited Adjustments, Facebook, Surveillance and Electronic Voting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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  5. SPECIFIC ISSUES : SECURITY BREACHES, UNSOLICITED ADJUSTMENTS, FACEBOOK, SURVEILLANCE AND ELECTRONIC VOTING

    1. The Emerging European Union Security Breach Legal Framework: The 2002/58 ePrivacy Directive and Beyond

      • Rosa Barcelo, Peter Traung
      Pages 77-104

    2. From Unsolicited Communications to Unsolicited Adjustments

      • Gloria González Fuster, Serge Gutwirth, Paul de Hert
      Pages 105-117

    3. Facebook and Risks of “De-contextualization” of Information

      • Franck Dumortier
      Pages 119-137

    4. Surveillance in Germany: Strategies and Counterstrategies

      • Gerrit Hornung, Ralf Bendrath, Andreas Pfitzmann
      Pages 139-156

    5. Verifiability of Electronic Voting: Between Confidence and Trust

      • Wolter Pieters
      Pages 157-175

    6. Electronic Voting in Germany

      • Melanie Volkamer
      Pages 177-189

  6. Third Pillar Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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  8. Technology Assessment Views

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245
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About this book

One of the most challenging issues facing our current information society is the accelerating accumulation of data trails in transactional and communication systems, which may be used not only to profile the behaviour of individuals for commercial, marketing and law enforcement purposes, but also to locate and follow things and actions. Data mining, convergence, interoperability, ever- increasing computer capacities and the extreme miniaturisation of the hardware are all elements which contribute to a major contemporary challenge: the profiled world. This interdisciplinary volume offers twenty contributions that delve deeper into some of the complex but urgent questions that this profiled world addresses to data protection and privacy. The chapters of this volume were all presented at the second Conference on Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP2009) held in Brussels in January 2009 (www.cpdpconferences.org). The yearly CPDP conferences aim to become Europe’s most important meeting where academics, practitioners, policy-makers and activists come together to exchange ideas and discuss emerging issues in information technology, privacy and data protection and law. This volume reflects the richness of the conference, containing chapters by leading lawyers, policymakers, computer, technology assessment and social scientists. The chapters cover generic themes such as the evolution of a new generation of data protection laws and the constitutionalisation of data protection and more specific issues like security breaches, unsolicited adjustments, social networks, surveillance and electronic voting. This book not only offers a very close and timely look on the state of data protection and privacy in our profiled world, but it also explores and invents ways to make sure this world remains a world we want to live in.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Law, Science, Technology & Society, (LSTS), Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Serge Gutwirth

  • Research Centre for Information, Technology & Law, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium

    Yves Poullet

  • Center for Law, Science, Technology, and Society Studies (LSTS), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

    Paul De Hert

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