Social Networks - The Modern-Day Family (eBook)

Social networks have created a plethora of problems regarding privacy and the protection of personal data. The use of social networks has become a key concern of legal scholars, policy-makers and the operators as well as users of those social networks. This pathbreaking book highlights the importance of privacy in the context of today's new electronic communication technologies as it presents conflicting claims to protect national and international security, the freedom of the Internet and economic considerations. Using the New Haven School of Jurisprudence's intellectual framework, the author presents the applicable law on privacy and social media in international and comparative perspective, focusing on the United States, the European Union and its General Data Protection Regulation of 2018 as well as Germany, the United Kingdom and Latin America. The book appraises the law in place, discusses alternatives and presents recommendations in pursuit of a public order of human dignity. 

?Vanessa Karen Kirch is an international lawyer admitted to the Bar Association in Cologne, Germany. She holds a J.D. obtained in Germany as well as an LL.M. and a J.S.D. from St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, Florida. Her legal education focused on international and comparative law, undertaken among others at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne as well as Complutense University of Madrid, the Robert Bosch France S.A.S. in Paris, and the German Foreign Office in Berlin as well as the German Embassy in Quito, Ecuador.