Data Protection Law and Emotion

Data protection law is seen as an important regulatory response to the challenges posed by innovative technologies, but some scholars are critical of its capacity to make a difference; Data Protection Law and Emotion, however, argues that we, as data subjects, play an essential role in the adoption and operation of these laws.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: The Fundamentals of Data Protection Law


• 3: The Challenge to Information Categories


• 4: The Challenge to Individual Choice


• 5: The Challenge to Fairness


• 6: The Limits of Data Protection Law


• 7: Conclusion

About the author

Damian Clifford is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Australian National University. Previously a FWO Aspirant Fellow at KU Leuven's Centre for IT and IP Law (CiTiP), his research focuses on privacy, data protection and technology regulation, and he has published across these fields. His books Data and Private Law (edited with Jeannie Marie Paterson and Kwan Ho Lau) and Data Protection Law and Emotion will be published in 2023 and 2024 respectively.

Summary

Data protection law is seen as an important regulatory response to the challenges posed by innovative technologies, but some scholars are critical of its capacity to make a difference; Data Protection Law and Emotion, however, argues that we, as data subjects, play an essential role in the adoption and operation of these laws.

Product details

• Authors: Clifford , Damian Clifford, Damian (Senior Lecturer Clifford
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.2024
• EAN: 9780192845863
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284586-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Oxford Data Protection & Privacy Law
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Artificial Intelligence, LAW / Communications, LAW / Computer & Internet, Artificial Intelligence (AI), EU (European Union), COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, Data Protection Law