Conceptions of Data Protection and Privacy

Elisa Orrù is Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law and Associate Professor at Freiburg University, Germany. Ralf Poscher is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany.

Introduction, Ralf Poscher (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany) Elisa Orrù (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany)

Part I: Civil Rights, Fundamental Rights, or No Rights at All? Which Kinds of Rights Are Privacy and Data Protection and What Do They Actually Protect?
1. Privacy as a Civil Right. Some Reflections on Discrimination, Language and Politics, Anita Allen (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
2. Conceptualising the Protected Interests in Data Protection Law, Marion Albers (Hamburg University, Germany)
3. A Commentary on Marion Albers’ Contribution, Johannes Masing (Freiburg University, Germany)
4. Is the Right to Data Protection a fundamental right? Ralf Poscher (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany)

Part II: A Comparison of German, European and US-American Views Based on Constitutional Jurisprudence and Law
5. The Right to Informational Self-Determination, Gabriele Britz (Gießen University, Germany)
6. European Data Protection Law: Don’t Let it Be (Forever) Misunderstood, Gloria Gonzalez-Fuster (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
7. An Exercise in Soul-Searching: Parsing the GDPR to Reveal the Meaning of Data Protection, Maria Grazia Porcedda (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
8. A Property-Based Understanding of Data Privacy Under the 4th Amendment, Neil Gorsuch (US Supreme Court)
9. Privacy Rights After Big Tech, Timothy Tymkovich (United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review)

Part III: The Public and the Private: Privacy and Data Protection Beyond the Individual
10. Beyond the Individual: Privacy, Society, and Architectures of Power, Daniel Solove (George Washington University, USA)
11. Understanding the Opacity Concept in its Context, Paul De Hert (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
12. A Fundamental Data Protection Right - or Rather a Rule of Law 2.0? A Search for Clues in Judicial Procedural Law, Nikolaus Marsch (Saarland University, Germany)
13. On the Power of Shifting the Boundary between the Private and the Public, Beate Rössler (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Part IV: Privacy and Society. Democratic Values, Autonomy and Trust
14. AI Challenges to Privacy: the Inference Problem, Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell University, USA)
15. Privacy, Informational Self-Determination, and Autonomy, Elisa Orrù (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany)
16. Privacy in Light of Critiques of Autonomy, Tobias Matzner (Paderborn University, Germany)
17. Privacy, Trust, and Queer Youth, Ari Ezra Waldman (Northeastern University, USA)
18. Trust in Privacy Law, Johannes Eichenhofer (Leipzig University, Germany)