Full Description
This Research Handbook is an insightful overview of the key rules, concepts and tensions in privacy and data protection law. It highlights the increasing global significance of this area of law, illustrating the many complexities in the field through a blend of theoretical and empirical perspectives.
Providing an excellent in-depth analysis of global privacy and data protection law, it explores multiple regional and national jurisdictions, bringing together interdisciplinary international contributions from Europe and beyond. Chapters cover critical topics in the field, including key features of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), border surveillance, big data, artificial intelligence, and biometrics. It also investigates the relationship between privacy and data protection law and other fields of law, such as consumer law and competition law.
With its detailed exploration and insights into privacy and data protection, this Research Handbook will prove a useful resource for information and media law students as well as academics researching fields such as data protection and privacy law and surveillance or security studies.
Contents
Contents:
Introduction to Research Handbook on Privacy and Data Protection Law 1
Gloria González Fuster, Rosamunde Van Brakel and Paul De Hert
PART I GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
1 Privacy and data protection in Europe: Council of Europe's Convention
108+ and the European Union's GDPR 10
Cécile de Terwangne
2 Post-Brexit data protection in the UK - leaving the EU but not EU data
protection law behind 35
Karen McCullagh
3 Understanding American privacy 59
Neil Richards, Andrew Serwin and Tyler Blake
4 The justiciability of data privacy issues in Europe and the US 72
Karlijn van den Heuvel and Joris van Hoboken
5 Canadian privacy law and the post war freedom of information paradigm 108
Jonathon W. Penney
6 Data protection laws in Japan 127
Hiroshi Miyashita
7 Data protection in Latin America 139
Mónica Arenas Ramiro
PART II INTER-AND TRANS-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON
PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION
8 Social values and privacy law and policy 160
Priscilla M. Regan
9 Media and communication studies, privacy and public values: Future
challenges 175
Jo Pierson
10 From law to engineering: A computer science perspective on privacy
and data protection 196
Ninja Marnau and Christoph Sorge
11 Privacy, data protection, and security studies 213
Matthias Leese
12 Data protection and consumer protection: The empowerment of the
citizen-consumer 228
Damian Clifford
13 Data protection and competition law: The dawn of 'uberprotection' 248
Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna and Sînziana Ianc
PART III HOT TOPICS IN PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION
14 Privacy, data protection and the role of European Courts: Towards
judicialisation and constitutionalisation of European privacy and data
protection framework 273
Maja Brkan
15 Surveillance at the borders: Travellers and their data protection rights 302
Diana Dimitrova
16 Big data and data protection 335
Alessandro Mantelero
17 Data protection and children's online privacy 354
Valerie Steeves and Milda Mačėnaitė
18 Biometric data processing: Is the legislator keeping up or just keeping
up appearances? 371
E.J. Kindt
19 Co-regulation and competitive advantage in the GDPR: Data protection
certification mechanisms, codes of conduct and data protection-by-design 398
Maximilian von Grafenstein
20 Automated decision-making and data protection in Europe 428
Gianclaudio Malgieri
Index
