The fundamental right to data protection : normative value in the context of counter-terrorism surveillance / Maria Tzanou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tzanou, Maria, author.

Series:

Modern studies in European law ; Volume 71.

Modern studies in European law ; v. 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Data protection--Law and legislation.

Data protection.

Terrorism--Prevention--Law and legislation.

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford [UK] ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2017.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, data protection has been elevated to the status of a fundamental right in the European Union and is now enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights alongside the right to privacy. This timely book investigates the normative significance of data protection as a fundamental right in the EU. The first part of the book examines the scope, the content and the capabilities of data protection as a fundamental right to resolve problems and to provide for an effective protection. It discusses the current approaches to this right in the legal scholarship and the case-law and identifies the limitations that prevent it from having an added value of its own. It suggests a theory of data protection that reconstructs the understanding of this right and could guide courts and legislators on data protection issues. The second part of the book goes on to empirically test the reconstructed right to data protection in four case-studies of counter-terrorism surveillance: communications metadata, travel data, financial data and Internet data surveillance. The book will be of interest to academics, students, policy-makers and practitioners in EU law, privacy, data protection, counter-terrorism and human rights law

Contents:

Data protection as a fundamental right

The judicial assessment of the right to data protection

Metadata surveillance

Travel data surveillance

Financial data surveillance

Internet data surveillance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781509901708

1509901701

9781509901685

150990168X

OCLC:

966971670