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Protecting Personal Information: The Right to Privacy Reconsidered

Protecting Personal Information: The Right to Privacy Reconsidered

Author: Andrea Monti; Raymond Wacks
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509924851

Published In: May 2019
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781509946167

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The concept of privacy has long been confused and incoherent. The right to privacy has been applied promiscuously to an alarmingly wide-ranging assortment of issues including free speech, political consent, abortion, contraception, sexual preference, noise, discrimination, and pornography.

The conventional definition of privacy, and attempts to evolve a 'privacy-as-a fence' approach, are unable to deal effectively with the technological advances that have significantly altered the way information is collected, stored, and communicated. Social media such as Facebook pose searching questions about the use and protection of personal information and reveal the limits of conceiving the right to privacy as synonymous with data protection.

The recent European Union's GDPR seeks to enforce greater protection of personal information, but the overlap with privacy has further obscured its core meaning. This book traces these troubling developments, and seeks to reveal the essential nature of privacy and, critically, what privacy is not.

1. Personal Information and Privacy

I. The Genesis

II. Defining 'Privacy'

III. Privacy and Personal Information

IV. A Constitutional Right

V. A Way Forward

VI. Personal Information

2. Personal Information and Data Protection

I. Introduction

II. The Association of Data Protection and Privacy

III. EU Data Protection Law

IV. The European Court of Human Rights