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Reasonable Expectations of Privacy?

Eleven country reports on camera surveillance and workplace privacy

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Sjaak Nouwt

    1. ilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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  2. Berend R. de Vries

    1. ilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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  3. Corien Prins

    1. ilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Information Technology and Law Series (ITLS, volume 7)

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Keywords

  • Comparative law
  • Data Protection
  • Human Rights law
  • IT & Law
  • privacy

About this book

In 1967, Justice John Marshall Harlan introduced the litmus test of ‘a reasonable expectation of privacy’ in his concurring opinion in the US Supreme Court case of Katz v. United States. Privacy, regulations to protect privacy, and data protection have been legal and social issues in many Western countries for a number of decades. However, recent measures to combat terrorism, to fight crime, and to increase security, together with the growing social acceptance of privacy-invasive technologies can be considered a serious threat to the fundamental right to privacy. What is the purport of ‘reasonable expectations of privacy’?

 

Reasonable expectations of privacy and the reality of data protection is the title of a research project being carried out by TILT, the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. The project is aimed at developing an international research network of privacy experts (professionals, academics, policymakers) and to carry out research on the practice, meaning, and legal performance of privacy and data protection in an international perspective.

 

Part of the research project was to analyse the concept of privacy and the reality of data protection in case law, with video surveillance and workplace privacy as two focal points. The eleven country reports regarding case law on video surveillance and workplace privacy are the core of the present book. The conclusions drawn by the editors are intended to trigger and stimulate an international debate on the use and possible drawbacks of the ‘reasonable expectations of privacy’ concept.

 

The editors are all affiliated to TILT – Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

 

This is Volume 7 in the Information Technology and Law (IT&Law) Series

Editors and Affiliations

  • ilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Sjaak Nouwt, Berend R. de Vries, Corien Prins

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reasonable Expectations of Privacy?

  • Book Subtitle: Eleven country reports on camera surveillance and workplace privacy

  • Editors: Sjaak Nouwt, Berend R. de Vries, Corien Prins

  • Series Title: Information Technology and Law Series

  • Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press The Hague

  • eBook Packages: Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: T.M.C. Asser Press 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-6704-198-0Published: 28 July 2005

  • Series ISSN: 1570-2782

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1966

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 382

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