Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity in Europe

This book offers a comparative perspective on data protection and cybersecurity in Europe. In light of the digital revolution and the implementation of social media applications and big data innovations, it analyzes threat perceptions regarding privacy and cyber security, and examines socio-political differences in the fundamental conceptions and narratives of privacy, and in data protection regimes, across various European countries. The first part of the book raises fundamental legal and ethical questions concerning data protection; the second analyses discourses on cybersecurity and data protection in various European countries; and the third part discusses EU regulations and norms intended to create harmonized data protection regimes.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Privacy, data protection and cybersecurity in Europe Part 1: Fundamental issues of privacy and data protection Chapter 2: Spain - The right to be forgotten Chapter 3: Harvesting social media for journalistic purposes in the UK Part 2: Discourses on cybersecurity and data protection in comparative perspective Chapter 4: Analysing the French discourse about "surveillance and data protection" in the context of the NSA scandal Chapter 5: Solving the surveillance problem Chapter 6: The unshaken role of GCHQ Chapter 7: The ambiguous relation between privacy and security in German cyber politics Part 3: Europeanisation - centre and periphery Chapter 8: Protecting or processing? Chapter 9: Lithuania and Romania to introduce cybersecurity laws.