Data Protection in a Profiled World
One of the most challenging issues facing our current information society is the accelerating accumulation of data trails in transactional and communication systems, which may be used not only to profile the behaviour of individuals for commercial, market
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Serge Gutwirth • Yves Poullet • Paul De Hert (Editors)
Data Protection in a Profiled World
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Editors Prof. Serge Gutwirth Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels Belgium [email protected]
Prof. Paul De Hert Law, Science, Technology and Society Studies (LSTS) Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels Belgium [email protected]
Prof. Yves Poullet Research Centre for Information Technology & Law University of Namur Rempart de la Vierge 5 5000 Namur Belgium [email protected]
ISBN 978-90-481-8864-2 e-ISBN 978-90-481-8865-9 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-8865-9 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010930625 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover design: eStudio Calamar S.L. Printed on acid free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
One of the most challenging issues facing our current information society is the accelerating accumulation of data trails in transactional and communication systems, which may be used not only to profile the behaviour of individuals for commercial, marketing and law enforcement purposes, but also to locate and follow things and actions. Data mining, convergence, interoperability, ever-increasing computer capacities and the extreme miniaturisation of hardware are all elements which contribute to a major contemporary challenge: the profiled world. This interdisciplinary volume offers twenty contributions that delve deeper into some of the complex but urgent questions that this profiled world poses to data protection and privacy. The chapters of this volume are a peer-reviewed elaboration of presentations that were presented during one of the 12 panel sessions of the second Conference on Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP2009)—Data protection in a profiled world held in Brussels in January 2009 (www.cpdpconferences.org). In this sense, this book can be seen as a sequel of Reinventing data protection? (Springer 2009) which stemmed from the first CPDP conference of November 2007. The yearly CPDP conferences aim to become Europe’s most important meeting where academics, practitioners, policy-makers and activists come together to exchange ideas and discuss emerging issues in information technology, privacy, data protection and law. The second edition of the conference, of which this book is a reflection, was again very successful. During the two conference days (16 & 17 January 2009) 61 speakers took the floor representing a worldwide palette of stakeholders and specialists of privacy and data protec
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