Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity in Europe
This book offers a comparative perspective on data protection and cybersecurity in Europe. In light of the digital revolution and the implementation of social media applications and big data innovations, it analyzes threat perceptions regarding privacy an
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vacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity in Europe
Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity in Europe
Wolf J. Schünemann • Max-Otto Baumann Editors
Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity in Europe
Editors Wolf J. Schünemann Institute for Social Sciences Hildesheim University Hildesheim, Germany
Max-Otto Baumann German Development Institute Bonn, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-53633-0 ISBN 978-3-319-53634-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-53634-7
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Preface
When we first discussed the idea of gathering an international group of scholars for a workshop on privacy and data protection in Europe, we had a comparative enquiry of the national traditions, practices and discourses regarding this field of growing importance in the era of digitisation in mind. Given the developments in European policymaking (the General Data Protection Regulation was entering the final stage of the regulatory process in Brussels), itself a reaction to the profound change brought by digitisation, the time was certainly right for this academic endeavour. Confirming our first guess, we quickly learned that despite the obvious practical relevance, there is indeed a large research gap on these issues that calls to be addressed. When receiving paper proposals, we also recognised that the Snowden revelations of 2013 strongly affected the political discussions on the issue as well as the scholarly work. We faced a complex ensemble of intertwined issues which included privacy, data protection and cybersecurity. For the programme of our wor
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