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Serge Gutwirth

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2014

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Actoevoerders Zijn Geen Criminele Bende, Eva Brems, Serge Gutwirth, Paul De Hert, Patrick Humblet, Dirk Voorhoof Jun 2014

Actoevoerders Zijn Geen Criminele Bende, Eva Brems, Serge Gutwirth, Paul De Hert, Patrick Humblet, Dirk Voorhoof

Serge Gutwirth

De rechtbank in Dendermonde veroordeelde de aardappelactivisten van Wetteren voor bendevorming. Vijf juristen-hoogleraren (Eva Brems, Paul De Hert, Serge Gutwirth, Patrick Humblet en Dirk Voorhoof) wijzen erop dat deze uitspraak een gevaarlijk precedent schiep: ze zette de deur open voor criminalisering van de meest uiteenlopende geweldloze acties.


Ethics, Law And Privacy: Disentangling Law From Ethics In Privacy Discourse, Gloria Gonzalez Fuster, Serge Gutwirth May 2014

Ethics, Law And Privacy: Disentangling Law From Ethics In Privacy Discourse, Gloria Gonzalez Fuster, Serge Gutwirth

Serge Gutwirth

Abstract— Numerous science, technology and engineering developments are perceived as raising privacy concerns. As such, privacy repeatedly finds itself addressed through the mixed lens of an ‘ethical-legal’ (if not ‘ethical-legal-social’) perspective. The aim of this contribution is to dispute the validity of this indistinctive approach, to stress its shortcomings, and to investigate the paths that help to disentwine ethics and law in accordance with their respective singularities and the distance between them. The paper’s basic premise is that it is not possible to address the articulation between law and ethics from a neutral, un-aligned, un-attached perspective, and that, regardless of …