Cybersecurity and Human Rights in the Age of Cyberveillance

Roy Balleste, J.S.D. is Professor of Law and Law Library Director at St. Thomas University, in Miami Gardens, Florida. Professor Balleste has concentrated his scholarship in the areas of internet governance, human rights and the relationship between information, technology, and people. He teaches internet governance at the School of Law. Professor Balleste is an active participant in the global debates that seek to improve the governance of the Internet. In November 2007, he participated in the Second UN Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro. He also participated in the Fifth UN Internet Governance Forum in Vilnius, Lithuania, September 2010. Professor Balleste is a member of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet). He is also a member and active participant in the Noncommercial Users Stakeholder Group (NCSG-NCUC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).Joanna Kulesza, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Department of International Law and International Relations, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz, Poland. She has been a visiting lecturer with the Oxford Internet Institute, Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster and Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge and Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. She worked for the European Parliament, Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Council of Europe. She is the author of four monographs on international and Internet law and over 30 peer-reviewed papers. Kulesza just concluded her work on a monograph on due diligence principle in international law.

This book focuses on privacy and civil liberties that are at risk if governments are not reined in by international law standards enshrined in treaties and national laws. The tension between privacy and security comes to a head in cyberwar, as there is currently an inadequate legal framework for privacy and civil liberties in international cyberlaw. There are pressing issues of internet governance, international trade, human rights, and a multistakeholder political process that encroach on international cyberwarfare. With analysis of cases from the International Court of Justice, this book looks for answers in traditional international warfare laws that could be applied in cyberwarfare scenarios. While cyberwarfare may not reach the ‘armed attack’ threshold of most international warfare laws and treaties, the lessons learned from the international court cases regarding physical war can shape the future of cyberwarfare laws. The chapters are written as scholarly legal journal articles and define the terms used throughout, based on current international laws and actions. The volume's nine readable chapters are heavily cited with endnotes for each chapter, as well as a complete 26-page bibliography at the end of the book.Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners.

• ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Defining Cybersecurity –Critical Infrastructure and Public-Private PartnershipsJoanna KuleszaChapter 2: Cybersecurity and State Responsibility: Identifying a Due Diligence Standard for Prevention of Transboundary ThreatsDimitrios DelibasisChapter 3: In Harm's Way: Harmonizing Security and Human Rights in the Internet AgeRoy BallesteChapter 4: Privacy vs. Security – Identifying the Challenges in a Global Information SocietyRolf H. Weber and Dominic N. StaigerChapter 5: Freedom of Expression, Human Rights Standardsand Private Online CensorshipMonica HortenChapter 6: (Global) Internet Governance and its DiscontentsM. I. FranklinChapter 7: Walled Gardens or a Global Network? Tensions, (De-)centralizations and Pluralities of the Internet ModelFrancesca MusianiChapter 8: National Security and US Constitutional Rights: The Road to SnowdenRichard B. AndresChapter 9: Attribution Policy in Cyber WarKalliopi ChainoglouBibliography