Matthew White

Surveillance Law, Data Retention and Human Rights

A Risk to Democracy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the compatibility of data retention in the UK with the European Convention on Human Rights. This is explored through a variety of ways including providing an account of democracy and why secret surveillance poses a threat to it, and assessing the seriousness that data retention poses to fundamental rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032075990
• ISBN-10: 1032075996
• Artikelnr.: 70525991

Autorenporträt

Matthew White is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction and Methodology; 2. An Introduction to Communications Data
Retention and its illegality; 3. Communications data is just as, if not
more intrusive than content; 4. Data Retention, a fundamental rights issue?
Article 8 ECHR and Article 7 EU Charter underpinning democracy in the
digital age?; 5. Communications Data Retention as Mass Secret Surveillance
within Surveillance?; 6. Who is obligated to retain? Everything that
'communicates'?; 7. Data Retention is Incompatible with the ECHR- Legality
and Legitimacy; 8. Data Retention is Incompatible with the ECHR -
Necessity, Proportionality, Articles 6 and 14 and Data Protection; 9.
Conclusions