Research Handbook on Privacy and Data Protection Law: Values, Norms and Global Politics

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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 List of contributors Introduction to Research Handbook on Privacy and Data Protection Law • 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 • Cécile de Terwangne 2 Post-Brexit data protection in the UK – leaving the EU but not EU data protection law behind • Karen McCullagh 3 Understanding American privacy • Neil Richards, Andrew Serwin and Tyler Blake 4 The justiciability of data privacy issues in Europe and the US • Karlijn van den Heuvel and Joris van Hoboken 5 Canadian privacy law and the post-war freedom of information paradigm • Jonathon W. Penney 6 Data protection laws in Japan • Hiroshi Miyashita 7 Data protection in Latin America • Mónica Arenas Ramiro PART II: INTER- AND TRANS-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION 8 Social values and privacy law and policy • Priscilla M. Regan 9 Media and communication studies, privacy and public values: Future challenges • Jo Pierson 10 From law to engineering: A computer science perspective on privacy and data protection • Ninja Marnau and Christoph Sorge 11 Privacy, data protection, and security studies • Matthias Leese 12 Data protection and consumer protection: The empowerment of the citizen-consumer • Damian Clifford 13 Data protection and competition law: The dawn of ‘uber protection’ • 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 • Maja Brkan 15 Surveillance at the borders: Travellers and their data protection rights • Diana Dimitrova 16 Big data and data protection • Alessandro Mantelero 17 Data protection and children’s online privacy • Valerie Steeves and Milda Mačėnaitė 18 Biometric data processing: Is the legislator keeping up or just keeping up appearances? • Els J. Kindt 19 Co-regulation and competitive advantage in the GDPR: Data protection certification mechanisms, codes of conduct and data protection-by-design • Maximilian von Grafenstein 20 Automated decision-making and data protection in Europe • Gianclaudio Malgieri Index