Overview
- Provides a comprehensive analysis of the ever-expanding concept of “reasonable expectations of privacy”
- Gives guidance to academics and legal practitioners on how to interpret “reasonable expectations of privacy”
- Provides a novel comparison between different approaches to regulating privacy
Part of the book series: Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 72)
Part of the book sub series: Issues in Privacy and Data Protection (ISDP)
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About this book
‘Reasonable expectations of privacy’ have become a cornerstone concept in privacy and data protection legislation worldwide, extending today from US constitutional law to the GDPR, Article 8 ECHR, and various Asian and African data protection frameworks. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of this complex and ambiguous legal concept, addressing the many questions regarding its proper function, interpretation and application. Tracing the notion's evolution from the 1967 Supreme Court ruling in ‘Katz v United States’ to its status as a widespread paradigm of global privacy discourse, the work illuminates the many fallacies that pervade both academic and judicial interpretations. At its core, the book explores and evaluates four distinct models of ‘reasonable expectations,’ analysing their normative foundations and practical implications in depth. In doing so, the book also contributes to broader discussions within privacy and data protection theory, as it identifies and evaluates different strategies for regulating privacy conflicts, such as interest balancing or social norms-based regulation. Finally, the book also makes significant contributions to the scholarship on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Article 8 ECHR, evaluating how 'reasonable expectations' operate within these contexts from empiric and normative perspectives.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Part IV
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Paul Friedl is a legal scholar specializing in data and technology law. Following his PhD in law from Humboldt University Berlin, Paul worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and is currently an affiliate researcher at New York University's Information Law Institute. Paul’s research examines how law shapes the governance of data, technology and the internet, with a particular focus on the regulation of artificial intelligence. He has also written on other issues of (European) public law, particularly in the area of fundamental rights.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reasonable Expectations of Privacy
Book Subtitle: With Special Regard to European Privacy and Data Protection Law
Authors: Paul Friedl
Series Title: Law, Governance and Technology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-84881-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-84880-3Published: 06 March 2025
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-84883-4Due: 20 March 2026
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-84881-0Published: 05 March 2025
Series ISSN: 2352-1902
Series E-ISSN: 2352-1910
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 377
Topics: IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, European Law, Privacy, Legal Aspects of Computing