National Security, Personal Privacy and the Law - Surveying Electronic Surveillance and Data Acquisition

There have been significant changes in public attitudes towards surveillance in the last few years as a consequence of the Snowden disclosures and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. This book re-evaluates competing arguments between national security and personal privacy. The increased assimilation between the investigatory powers of the intelligence services and the police and revelations of unauthorised surveillance have resulted in increased demands for transparency in information gathering and for greater control of personal data. Recent legal reforms have attempted to limit the risks to freedom of association and expression associated with electronic surveillance. This book looks at the background to recent reforms and explains how courts and the legislature are attempting to effect a balance between security and personal liberty within a social contract. It asks what drives public concern when other aspects seem to be less contentious. In view of our apparent willingness to post on social media and engage in online commerce, it considers if we are truly consenting to a loss of privacy and how this reconciles with concerns about state surveillance.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction;

Chapter 2. Search and Surveillance: The Terrorist Threat;

Chapter 3. Surveillance Outed;

Chapter 4. Finding an Equilibrium;

Chapter 5. Surveying Surveillance;

Chapter 6. Privacy in an Age of Global Surveillance;

About the author

Sybil Sharpe has lectured at UK universities and authored legal publications on aspects of criminal investigation and evidence with particular emphasis on covert evidence and information gathering. She has also served on the Isle of Man Interception of Communications Tribunal.

Summary

In light of the significant changes in public attitudes towards surveillance in the last few years as a consequence of the Snowden disclosures and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, this book re-evaluates competing arguments between national security and personal privacy.

Product details

• Authors: Sybil Sharpe, Sharpe Sybil
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781032086743
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3208674-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Routledge Research in Terrorism and the Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, LAW / Computer & Internet, Terrorism, armed struggle, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Computer fraud & hacking, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Police law & police procedures, Computer fraud and hacking, Privacy law, Data Protection Law, Police law and police procedures, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance