Privacy, Data Protection and Law Enforcement. Opacity of the Individual and Transparency of Power

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ID16937697
AuthorsSerge Gutwirth (0000-0001-9973-7886, Leiden University), Paul De Hert (0000-0003-4084-6898, Leiden University)
Year2022
Volume18
Issue100
Publication date2022-01-27
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDireito Público (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1806-8200 • E-ISSN: 2236-1766
PublisherInstituto Brasiliense de Direito Publico (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11117/rdp.v18i100.6200
OpenAlexW1904660995
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Introduction; 1 Principles of the democratic constitutional state; 1.1 The Recognition of Human Rights in their Double Function; 1.2 The Rule of Law; 1.3 Democracy; 2 The democratic constitutional state and the invention of two complementary legal tools of power control; 2.1 Limiting power through opacity tools; 2.2 Channelling power through transparency tools; 3 Privacy as a tool for opacity (creating zones of non-interference); 3.1 The negative role of privacy; 3.2 The positive role of privacy; 3.3 The non-absolute nature of privacy; 4 Data protection as a tool for transparency; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The rationale behind data protection; 4.3 Data protection as an opacity tool?; 4.4 The charter of fundamental rights of the european union; 5 The shift from opacity towards transparency in european human rights law; 5.1 European human rights law and the legality requirement; 5.2 The success of the legality requirement; 5.3 A critical comment about the strasbourg focus on the legality requirement; 5.4 The danger of proceduralisation; 5.5 A requirement fundamental to opacity: necessary in a democratic state; 6. Combining privacy and data protection 6.1 Combining the tools; 6.2 Determining the switch; 6.3 An example: camera surveillance; 6.4 A second example: passenger profiling; 6.5 Workable criteria?; Conclusion

Business · Data Protection Act 1998 · Data Protection Directive · Democracy · European union · European Union law · Fundamental rights · Human rights · Information privacy · Information privacy law · International trade · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Principle of legality · Privacy law · Privacy policy · Sociology · Criminal Law and Evidence · European and International Law Studies · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection · Law

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