Surveillance and Privacy in the Digital Age

Valsamis Mitsilegas is Professor of European Criminal Law and Global Security and Niovi Vavoula is Lecturer in Migration and Security, both at the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom.

Introduction: Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age: European, Transatlantic and Global Challenges
Valsamis Mitsilegas, Queen Mary, University of London, UK and Niovi Vavoula, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

PART 1
THE CHALLENGE OF DIGITAL EVIDENCE
1. Cross-Border Access and Exchange of Digital Evidence: Cloud Computing Challenges to Human Rights and the Rule of Law
Sabine Gless, University of Basel, Switzerland and Pauline Pfirter, VISCHER AG, Basel, Switzerland
2. Sword, Shield and Cloud: Toward a European System of Public–Private Orders for Electronic Evidence in Criminal Matters?
Katalin Ligeti, University of Luxembourg and Gavin Robinson, Utrecht University, Netherlands
3. The Commission’s E-Evidence Initiative: Harmonising EU Rules on Access to Electronic Evidence
Lani Cossette, UN Affairs at Microsoft
4. The US CLOUD Act: Legislation that is Bad for Human Rights
Neema Singh Guliani, Head of National Security, Democracy, and Civil Rights
Public Policy, Americas at Twitter

PART 2
NEW SURVEILLANCE CHALLENGES
5. The Privatisation of Surveillance in the Digital Age
Valsamis Mitsilegas, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
6. Interoperability of EU Information Systems in a ‘Panopticon’ Union: A Leap Towards Maximised Use of Third-Country Nationals’ Data or a Step Backwards in the Protection of Fundamental Rights?
Niovi Vavoula, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
7. Privacy and Surveillance in a Digital Era: Transnational Implications of China’s Surveillance State
Matthieu Burnay, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

PART 3
HUMAN RIGHTS RESPONSES
8. Mapping Limitations on State Surveillance through the UN Human Rights Instruments
Elspeth Guild, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
9. Data Protection and Surveillance: The Perspective of EU Law
Hielke Hijmans, Belgian Data Protection Authority
10. One European Legal Framework for Surveillance: The ECtHR’s Expanded Legality Testing Copied by the CJEU
Paul de Hert, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and Gianclaudio Malgieri, EDHEC Business School in Lille, France
Afterword
Deirdre Curtin, European University Institute