Overview
- Identifies and addresses new challenges for data protection
- Addresses recommendations to private and public policy makers in the context of the EU Data Protection Directive
- Brings together a high number of leading experts in the field of data protection from both sides of the Atlantic
- Opens new paths for conceptualizing and further constructing data protection, both in terms of its fundamental values and in the area of problems it encounters
- Provides a unique look at privacy and liberty and the way these fundamental values are protected and enforced in their interaction with the developing capacities of information and communication technologies
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Fundamental Concepts
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About this book
data. Furthermore, the European Union established clear basic principles for the collection, storage and use of personal data by governments, businesses and other organizations or individuals in Directive 95/46/EC and Directive 2002/58/EC on Privacy and Electronic communications. Nonetheless, the twenty-?rst century citizen – utilizing the full potential of what ICT-technology has to offer – seems to develop a digital persona that becomes increasingly part of his individual social identity. From this perspective, control over personal information is control over an aspect of the identity one projects in the world. The right to privacy is the freedom from unreasonable constraints on one’s own identity. Transactiondata–bothtraf?candlocationdata–deserveourparticularattention. As we make phone calls, send e-mails or SMS messages, data trails are generated within public networks that we use for these communications. While traf?c data are necessary for the provision of communication services, they are also very sensitive data. They can give a complete picture of a person’s contacts, habits, interests, act- ities and whereabouts. Location data, especially if very precise, can be used for the provision of services such as route guidance, location of stolen or missing property, tourist information, etc. In case of emergency, they can be helpful in dispatching assistance and rescue teams to the location of a person in distress. However, p- cessing location data in mobile communication networks also creates the possibility of permanent surveillance.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“Provide a full length assessment of the myriad challenges currently facing the notion of data protection … . Overall, this volume offers an interesting and balanced account of what has become of the concept of data protection since its inclusion in the 2000 Charter of Fundamental Rights. In engaging with the technological challenges of the networked world as well as the limitations of existing legislations, this collection constitutes a useful companion for legal experts in the field and newcomers … .” (Btihaj Ajana, Identity in the Information Society, Vol. 2 (3), December, 2009)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reinventing Data Protection?
Editors: Serge Gutwirth, Yves Poullet, Paul Hert, Cécile Terwangne, Sjaak Nouwt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9498-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9497-2Published: 02 June 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8142-1Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9498-9Published: 24 May 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 342