Managing Privacy through Accountability

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   • Daniel Guagnin, Leon Hempel, Carla Ilten, Inga Kroener, Daniel Neyland, Hector Postigo

   Pages 1-14

3. The Meaning of ‘Accountability’ in the Information Privacy Context

   • Charles Raab

   Pages 15-32

4. The Accountability Approach to Privacy and Data Protection: Assumptions and Caveats

   • Colin J. Bennett

   Pages 33-48

5. The Accountability Principle in Data Protection Regulation: Origin, Development and Future Directions

   • Joseph Alhadeff, Brendan Van Alsenoy, Jos Dumortier

   Pages 49-82

6. The Challenges of Working Out Surveillance and Accountability in Theory and Practice

   • Daniel Neyland

   Pages 83-101

7. Bridging the Gap: We Need to Get Together

   • Daniel Guagnin, Leon Hempel, Carla Ilten

   Pages 102-124

8. Privacy and Trust in Socio-technical Systems of Accountability

   • Priscilla M. Regan, Deborah G. Johnson

   Pages 125-142

9. Maintaining Sovereignty over Personal Data in Social Networking Sites

   • Esma Aïmeur, Sébastien Gambs, Ai Ho

   Pages 143-164

10. ‘Cold Intimacies’: Community Notification, Satellite Tracking and the Ruined Privacy of Sex Offenders

    • Mike Nellis

    Pages 165-187

11. Electronic Health Records — The Case for Accountability in Hospitals

    • Alexander Dix

    Pages 188-192

12. Accountability and System Responsibility: New Concepts in Data Protection Law and Human Rights Law

    • Paul De Hert

    Pages 193-232

13. Accountability and Independence of Data Protection Authorities — A Trade-Off?

    • Philip Schütz

    Pages 233-260

14. Beyond Accountability, the Return to Privacy?

    • Raphaël Gellert, Serge Gutwirth

    Pages 261-283

15. Back Matter

    Pages 285-292

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Draws together contributions from leading figures in the field of surveillance to engage in the discussion of the emergence of accountability as a means to manage threats to privacy. The first of its kind to enrich the debate about accountability and privacy by drawing together perspectives from experienced privacy researchers and policy makers.

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'Can robust forms of accountability successfully temper the negative effects of contemporary surveillance? This book provides a much-needed, critical exploration of the potentials of accountability cultures to transform institutions so that privacy protections are taken seriously.' - Torin Monahan, author of Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity

• Technical University of Berlin, Germany

  Daniel Guagnin, Leon Hempel, Carla Ilten

• Lancaster University Management School, UK

  Inga Kroener, Daniel Neyland

• Temple University, USA

  Hector Postigo

ESMA AIMEUR Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal, Canada JOSEPH H. ALHADEFF Vice President for Global Public Policy and Chief Privacy Strategist for Oracle Corporation BRENDAN VAN ALSENOY Legal researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center of Law and ICT (ICRI) of K.U.Leuven, Belgium COLIN J. BENNETT Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Canada ALEXANDER DIX Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and for Freedom of Information and Member of the Article 29 Working Party JOS DUMORTIER Professor in Law and IT at the Faculty of Law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium SÉBASTIEN GAMBS holds a joint Research chair in Security of Information Systems between INRIA and Université de Rennes 1, France RAPHAËL GELLERT Researcher at Law Science Technology & Society at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium SERGE GUTWIRTH Full-time professor of Human Rights, Comparative law, Legal Theory and Methodology at Vrije Universiteit Brussel's Faculty of Law and Criminology, Belgium PAUL DE HERT holds the chair of 'International, European and Belgian Criminal Law' and 'The History of Constitutionalism' at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium AI HO DEBORAH G. JOHNSON Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Science of the University of Virginia, USA MIKENEILLIS Emeritus Professor of Criminal and Community Justice at the University of Strathlyde Law School, Scotland CHARLES D. RAAB Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professorial Fellow in the University of Edinburgh, UK PRISCILLA M. REGAN Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, USA PHILIP SCHÜTZ Junior researcher at the Competence Center 'Emerging Technologies' of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe, Germany

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