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Draws together contributions from leading figures in the field of surveillance to engage in the discussion of the emergence of accountability as a means to manage threats to privacy. The first of its kind to enrich the debate about accountability and privacy by drawing together perspectives from experienced privacy researchers and policy makers.
List of contents
List of Tables List of Figures Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; D.Neyland , D.Guagnin , L.Hempel , C.Ilten , I.Kroener & H.Postigo The Meaning of 'Accountability' in the Information Privacy Context; C.Raab The Accountability Approach to Privacy and Data Protection: Assumptions and Caveats; C.J.Bennett The Accountability Principle in Data Protection Regulation: Origin, Development and Future Directions; J.Alhadeff , B.V.Alsenoy & J.Dumortier The Challenges of Working out Surveillance and Accountability in Theory and Practice; D.Neyland Bridging the Gap: We Need to Get Together; D.Guagnin , L.Hempel C.Ilten Privacy and Trust In Sociotechnical Systems of Accountability; P.M.Regan & D.G.Johnson Maintaining Sovereignty over Personal Data in Social Networking Sites; E.AImeur , S.Gambs & A.Ho 'Cold Intimacies': Community Notification, Satellite Tracking and the Ruined Privacy of Sex Offenders; M.Nellis Electronic Health Records - The Case for Accountability in Hospitals; A.Dix Accountability and System Responsibility: New Concepts in Data Protection Law and Human Rights Law; P.De Hert Accountability and Independence of Data Protection Authorities - A Trade-off?; P.Schütz Beyond Accountability, the Return to Privacy?; R.Gellert & S.Gutwirth
About the author
ESMA AIMEUR Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal, Canada
JOSEPH H. ALHADEFF Vice President for Global Public Policy and Chief Privacy Strategist for Oracle Corporation
BRENDAN VAN ALSENOY Legal researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center of Law and ICT (ICRI) of K.U.Leuven, Belgium
COLIN J. BENNETT Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Canada
ALEXANDER DIX Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and for Freedom of Information and Member of the Article 29 Working Party
JOS DUMORTIER Professor in Law and IT at the Faculty of Law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
SÉBASTIEN GAMBS holds a joint Research chair in Security of Information Systems between INRIA and Université de Rennes 1, France
RAPHAËL GELLERT Researcher at Law Science Technology & Society at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
SERGE GUTWIRTH Full-time professor of Human Rights, Comparative law, Legal Theory and Methodology at Vrije Universiteit Brussel's Faculty of Law and Criminology, Belgium
PAUL DE HERT holds the chair of 'International, European and Belgian Criminal Law' and 'The History of Constitutionalism' at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
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DEBORAH G. JOHNSON Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Science of the University of Virginia, USA
MIKENEILLIS Emeritus Professor of Criminal and Community Justice at the University of Strathlyde Law School, Scotland
CHARLES D. RAAB Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professorial Fellow in the University of Edinburgh, UK
PRISCILLA M. REGAN Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, USA
PHILIP SCHÜTZ Junior researcher at the Competence Center 'Emerging Technologies' of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe, Germany
Summary
Draws together contributions from leading figures in the field of surveillance to engage in the discussion of the emergence of accountability as a means to manage threats to privacy. The first of its kind to enrich the debate about accountability and privacy by drawing together perspectives from experienced privacy researchers and policy makers.
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'Can robust forms of accountability successfully temper the negative effects of contemporary surveillance? This book provides a much-needed, critical exploration of the potentials of accountability cultures to transform institutions so that privacy protections are taken seriously.' - Torin Monahan, author of Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity
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'Can robust forms of accountability successfully temper the negative effects of contemporary surveillance? This book provides a much-needed, critical exploration of the potentials of accountability cultures to transform institutions so that privacy protections are taken seriously.' - Torin Monahan, author of Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity
