Managing Privacy through Accountability

ESMA AIMEUR Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal, CanadaJOSEPH H. ALHADEFF Vice President for Global Public Policy and Chief Privacy Strategist for Oracle Corporation BRENDAN VAN ALSENOY Legal researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center of Law and ICT (ICRI) of K.U.Leuven, BelgiumCOLIN J. BENNETT Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, CanadaALEXANDER DIX Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and for Freedom of Information and Member of the Article 29 Working PartyJOS DUMORTIER Professor in Law and IT at the Faculty of Law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BelgiumSÉBASTIEN GAMBS holds a joint Research chair in Security of Information Systems between INRIA and Université de Rennes 1, FranceRAPHAËL GELLERT Researcher at Law Science Technology & Society at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium SERGE GUTWIRTH Full-time professor of Human Rights, Comparative law, Legal Theory and Methodology at Vrije Universiteit Brussel's Faculty of Law and Criminology, BelgiumPAUL DE HERT holds the chair of 'International, European and Belgian Criminal Law' and 'The History of Constitutionalism' at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium AI HODEBORAH G. JOHNSON Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Science of the University of Virginia, USAMIKENEILLIS Emeritus Professor of Criminal and Community Justice at the University of Strathlyde Law School, ScotlandCHARLES D. RAAB Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professorial Fellow in the University of Edinburgh, UKPRISCILLA M. REGAN Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, USAPHILIP SCHÜTZ Junior researcher at the Competence Center 'Emerging Technologies' of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe, Germany

• List of Tables List of Figures Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; D.Neyland , D.Guagnin , L.Hempel , C.Ilten , I.Kroener  & H.Postigo The Meaning of 'Accountability' in the Information Privacy Context; C.Raab The Accountability Approach to Privacy and Data Protection: Assumptions and Caveats; C.J.Bennett The Accountability Principle in Data Protection Regulation: Origin, Development and Future Directions; J.Alhadeff , B.V.Alsenoy  & J.Dumortier The Challenges of Working out Surveillance and Accountability in Theory and Practice; D.Neyland Bridging the Gap: We Need to Get Together; D.Guagnin , L.Hempel   C.Ilten Privacy and Trust In Sociotechnical Systems of Accountability; P.M.Regan  & D.G.Johnson Maintaining Sovereignty over Personal Data in Social Networking Sites; E.AImeur , S.Gambs  & A.Ho 'Cold Intimacies': Community Notification, Satellite Tracking and the Ruined Privacy of Sex Offenders; M.Nellis Electronic Health Records – The Case for Accountability in Hospitals; A.Dix Accountability and System Responsibility: New Concepts in Data Protection Law and Human Rights Law; P.De Hert Accountability and Independence of Data Protection Authorities – A Trade-off?; P.Schütz Beyond Accountability, the Return to Privacy?; R.Gellert  & S.Gutwirth

'Can robust forms of accountability successfully temper the negative effects of contemporary surveillance? This book provides a much-needed, critical exploration of the potentials of accountability cultures to transform institutions so that privacy protections are taken seriously.' - Torin Monahan, author of Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity