Courts, Privacy and Data Protection in the Digital Environment

Edited by Maja Brkan, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands and Evangelia Psychogiopoulou, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of the Peloponnese and Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Greece

'With the attention given in recent years to reform of the European legislative framework for privacy and data protection, the crucial role of the courts has sometimes been neglected. This important book fills this gap by providing authoritative and insightful commentary by a team of renowned scholars on the jurisprudence of European and national courts relating to privacy and data protection, particularly in the digital environment. It will be of great interest to anyone working in this field.'

• Contents:ForewordI. Introduction: Courts, Privacy and Data Protection in the Digital EnvironmentEvangelia Psychogiopoulou and Maja Brkan 2. The Court of Justice of the EU, Privacy and Data Protection: Judge-made law as a leitmotif in fundamental rights protectionMaja Brkan 3. The European Court of Human Rights, Privacy and Data Protection in the digital eraEvangelia Psychogiopoulou4. Courts, Privacy and Data protection in Belgium: Fundamental rights that might as well be struck from the ConstitutionPaul De Hert5. Courts, privacy and data protection in Finland: Making privacy and data protection real with a little help from the courtsTuomas Ojanen6. Courts, Privacy and Data Protection in Germany: Informational self-determination in the digital environmentJohannes Eichenhofer and Christoph Gusy7. Courts, Privacy and Data Protection in Greece: Systemic inconsistencies and incoherence in a rapidly changing landscapeTania Kyriakou8. Courts, Privacy and Data Protection in Italy: Implied Constitutional RightsClaudio Di Cocco and Giovanni Sartor 9. Courts, Privacy and Data Protection in The Netherlands: European influence and trends in litigationColette Cuijpers10. Courts, Privacy and Data Protection in Slovakia: A Hesitant Guardian?Martin Husovec 11. Courts, Privacy and Data Protection in Spain: Experiencing data protection’s dominanceGloria González Fuster12. Courts, privacy and data protection in the UK: Why two wrongs don’t make a rightOrla Lynskey Index