Computers, Privacy and Data Protection: an Element of Choice

EDITORS (anthology authors)
Serge
Gutwirth
Paul
De Hert
Ronald
Leenes
IMPRINT
Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
PUBLISHER
Springer Dordrecht
ISBN
9789400706408
DATE
27/2/2011
DESCRIPTION

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.