Suchergebnisse

The main legislative instrument for the protection of personal data in the EU is the Data Protection Directive. It has an extremely wide scope because most data that is shared can be classed as personal data and most activities concerning data can be seen as the processing of it. It also covers a large amount of modern communication methods that fall under the protection of the right to freedom of expression and information under Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Right of the European Unions. To address the tension between the rights, the Data Protection Directive provides for different mechanisms to balance them. This article departs from the premise that European courts prioritize certain interests in a given social context through this balancing exercise. The purpose of this article is to verify how the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) sets those priorities where the rights to data protection and freedom of expression and information conflict, especially in the context of developing communication technologies.

This white paper assesses privacy-preserving technologies taking ethical and societal issues into account. The assessment consists of two parts: a technology-specific assessment of selected classes of technologies and a more general assessment of the technologies. Among the assessed technologies are technologies for anonymisation and sanitisation, encryption, multi-party computation, access control, policy enforcement, accountability and transparency, data provenance, and access, portability and user control. With respect to the issues, the focus is on privacy but issues and values such as self-determination, welfare interdependency, trustworthiness, accountability, fairness and legislation are also taken into account.