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"This book is for anyone who cares about their privacy and data protection rights. It examines transatlantic conflicts when data privacy laws collide with security, freedom of expression and trade concerns. It considers who may make the law and where and how the EU can ensure fundamental rights are protected"--
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Conceptual approaches to data protection in the European Union and the United States; 3. The European Union's Obligations to safeguard the fundamental right to data protection extraterritorially; 4. Limits that public international law poses on the European Union safeguarding the fundamental right to data protection extraterritorially; 5. Ways to mitigate problematic jurisdictional overreach; 6. The reach of European Union data protection law in transatlantic data transfers for counter-terrorism purposes; 7. Data protection and the free flow of information; 8. Enabling transatlantic trade and protecting privacy through cross-border data transfer agreements; 9. The normative external effects of the European Union's exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction in data protection law; 10. Conclusion: enduring territorialism and fundamental rights.
About the author
Mistale Taylor is Counsel at the Public International Law and Policy Group. Her background lies in public international law and data privacy law. She has published and presented on many subjects, including international law, human rights, ethics, privacy and data protection as they relate to emerging technologies.
Summary
This book is for anyone who cares about their privacy and data protection rights. It examines transatlantic conflicts when data privacy laws collide with security, freedom of expression and trade concerns. It considers who may make the law and where and how the EU can ensure fundamental rights are protected.
