Computers, Privacy and Data Protection an Element of Choice [Paperback]

This timely interdisciplinary work on current developments in ICT and privacy/data protection, coincides as it does with the rethinking of the Data Protection Directive, the contentious debates on data sharing with the USA (SWIFT, PNR) and the judicial and political resistance against data retention. The authors of the contributions focus on particular and pertinent issues from the perspective of their different disciplines which range from the legal through sociology, surveillance studies and technology assessment, to computer sciences. Such issues include cutting-edge developments in the field of cloud computing, ambient intelligence and PETs; data retention, PNR-agreements, property in personal data and the right to personal identity; electronic road tolling, HIV-related information, criminal records and teenager's online conduct, to name but a few.This timely volume presents current developments in ICT and privacy/data protection. Readers will find an alternative view of the Data Protection Directive, the contentious debates on data sharing with the USA (SWIFT, PNR), and the judicial and political resistance against data retention.

Introduction.- Part 1 Building and Rebuilding Legal Concepts for Privacy and Data Protection.- Chapter 1 The German Constitutional Court Judgment on Data Retention: Proportionality Overrides Unlimited Surveillance (Doesnt It?); Katja de Vries, Rocco Bellanova, Paul De Hert and Serge Gutwirth.- Chapter 2 The Noise in the Archive: Oblivion in the Age of Total Recall; Jean-Fran?ois Blanchette.- Chapter 3 Property in personal data. Second life of an old idea in the age of cloud computing, chain informatisation, and ambient intelligence; Nadezhda Purtova.- Chapter 4, Right to Personal Identity. The Challenges of Ambient Intelligence and the Need for a New Legal Conceptualization ; Norberto Nuno Gomes de Andrade.- Part 2 The Dark Side: Suspicions, Distrust and Surveillance.- Chapter 5 Frames frl³³