Aviation Security, Privacy, Data Protection and Other Human Rights: Technologies and Legal Principles: 37 (Law, Governance and Technology Series)

This book sheds light on aviation security, considering both technologies and legal principles. It considers the protection of individuals in particular their rights to privacy and data protection and raises aspects of international law, human rights and data security, among other relevant topics. Technologies and practices which arise in this volume include body scanners, camera surveillance, biometrics, profiling, behaviour analysis, and the transfer of air passenger personal data from airlines to state authorities.

Readers are invited to explore questions such as: What right to privacy and data protection do air passengers have? How can air passenger rights be safeguarded, whilst also dealing appropriately with security threats at airports and in airplanes? Chapters explore these dilemmas and examine approaches to aviation security which may be transferred to other areas of transport or management of public spaces, thus making the issues dealt with here of paramou

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Olga Mironenko Enerstvedt, PhD, is a founder and consultant at Aviation and ICT Law Consulting. The company provides sector-specific consulting services with a focus on aviation, information and communication technology and privacy and data protection in an interrelated manner. Olga Mironenko Enerstvedt holds PhD from the University of Oslo, a diploma in law from the National Research University – Higher School of Economics in Moscow and an LLM from the University of Oslo in Information and Communication Technology Law. She formerly worked as a lawyer in the civil aviation industry in Russia. Research interests include ICT Law, privacy, data protection, aviation security, and civil aviation.