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The Contribution Of The Article 29 Working Party To The Construction Of A Harmonised European Data Protection System: An Illustration Of 'Reflexive Governance'?, Yves Poullet, Serge Gutwirth
The Contribution Of The Article 29 Working Party To The Construction Of A Harmonised European Data Protection System: An Illustration Of 'Reflexive Governance'?, Yves Poullet, Serge Gutwirth
Serge Gutwirth
The Art. 29 Working Party, which brings together representatives of the different national supervisory Data Protection Authorities, is a body responsible for giving advice and making recommendations to the European institutions on specific data protection issues. It works closely with the Commission. At European level, no similar institution has been established for example as regards consumer or environmental protection, although some national legislations do provide for supervisory bodies in these matters . To put it a little bit bluntly, it could be said that Art. 29 of the Data Protection Directive has officially installed a kind of ‘privacy lobby group’ …
Natural Law - A Libertarian View, Anthony D'Amato
Natural Law - A Libertarian View, Anthony D'Amato
Faculty Working Papers
What follows from the following two propositions? Legal positivism views law as a command writ large. The commander is the person or group with the most power. Answer: this pernicious mind-set is responsible for our abandonment of personal liberty. For there can be no limit to the imagination and will power of the commander. The plenary jurisdiction of the commander paves the way for Big Government to move in and regulate every aspect of our lives and our privacy. The world wasn't always like this. Prior to the servility that positivism has induced, there was a now-forgotten secular natural law …
Dredging Up The Past: Lifelogging, Memory And Surveillance, Anita L. Allen
Dredging Up The Past: Lifelogging, Memory And Surveillance, Anita L. Allen
All Faculty Scholarship
The term “lifelog” refers to a comprehensive archive of an individual's quotidian existence, created with the help of pervasive computing technologies. Lifelog technologies would record and store everyday conversations, actions, and experiences of their users, enabling future replay and aiding remembrance. Products to assist lifelogging are already on the market; but the technology that will enable people fully and continuously to document their entire lives is still in the research and development phase. For generals, edgy artists and sentimental grandmothers alike, lifelogging could someday replace or complement, existing memory preservation practices. Like a traditional diary, journal or day-book, the lifelog …