With the proliferation of information and communication technologies come needs for new or adjusted regulation in the various legal fields. The predominant area affected by new regulation has been the right to privacy and personal data protection. Recently, another area of law has gained increasing importance in light of new regulatory attempts: the freedom of...
Regulatory approaches to Free expression in Europe
The analysis aims to provide the initial answers to the question how the Internet has influenced the exercise and the judicial protection of this freedom. The rapid evolution of Internet stands behind the current ‘regulatory nervousness‘ around the free expression. The shift from national anxieties to the continental regulatory zeal is caused by the lack...
Regulatory approaches to the Right to Privacy and the Protection of Personal Data in Europe
This presentation focuses on the regulation of a right to privacy and personal data protection. It starts off with privacy as a fundamental right enshrined in international and European Human Rights regimes and focuses specifically on the integration of personal data protection therein. It will show how both individual legitimate expectation and human dignity has...
Safeguarding rights through deregulation? What Free Expression can learn from Privacy
Despite ongoing conflicts about the implementation of the GDPR, it represents a landmark piece of legislation that will define the international concept of Privacy for decades to come. The GDRP represents an agreement within Europe that the right to privacy needs greater levels of protection and a common understanding of how elements of this right...