Personal Data Privacy and Protection in a Surveillance Era

In recent years, with rapidly advancing technology and a more globalized culture, the importance of privacy has become paramount. The legal protection of privacy against these new technological threats is a major discussion point in Europe as well as in the United States. Personal Data Privacy and Protection in a Surveillance Era: Technologies and Practices spans a number of interdependent and emerging topics in the area of legal protection of privacy and technology. This book explores the new threats that cyberspace poses to the privacy of individuals, as well as the threats that surveillance technologies generate in public spaces and in digital communication. It examines media practices and privacy frameworks in the fields of copyright, digital management and genetic information. New models of data protection are proposed along with their advantages and disadvantages.

Christina Akrivopoulou holds a PhD in Constitutional Law. Her main research interests concern human and constitutional rights, the protection of the right to privacy, data protection, the private-public distinction and citizenship. She teaches law as a Special Scientist in the faculty of Political Sciences of the Democritus University of Thrace and in the Hellenic Open University, in Greece where she currently lives. She also is a post doctoral researcher of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation and she works as an attorney of law at the Thessaloniki Law Bar Association. She is collaborating with several Greek law reviews and she is a member of many non-governmental human rights organizations in Greece and abroad. She has edited for IGI the volume, "Personal Data Privacy and Protection in a Surveillance Era: Technologies and Practices" which has been published in 2010.

Athanasios-Efstratios Psygkas is a JSD candidate at Yale Law School. He holds an LLB from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, an LLM in Public Law and Political Science from the same law school and an LLM from Yale where he was a Fulbright scholar. He served as editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology and the Yale Journal of International Law. From January to July 2009, Psygkas was the Oscar M. Ruebhausen visiting research fellow at Yale Law School and a visiting fellow at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris in 2010-2011. He has published in the area of comparative public law.