Book description

This book critically assesses legal frameworks involving the bulk processing of personal data, initially collected by the private sector, to predict and prevent crime through advanced profiling technologies. In the European Union (EU), mass data surveillance currently engages three sectors: electronic communications (under the e-Privacy Directive), air travelling (under the Passenger Name Records Directive), and finance (under the Anti-Money Laundering Directive), and increasingly intersects with the deployment of predictive policing techniques. The book questions the legitimacy and impact of these frameworks in light of the EU’s powers to provide security while safeguarding fundamental rights, particularly privacy, data protection, effective remedy, fair trial, and presumption of innocence.

The discussants will be:

• Dr Delphine Dogot (Université Catholique de Lille): Delphine Dogot is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law. She researches and teaches in the areas of law and technology, international law and legal philosophy, in particular in relation to global governance, risk and security.
• Dr Kristina Irion (University of Amsterdam): Kristina Irion is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. In her research, Dr Irion focuses on EU digital and data law in relation to the governance of transnational digital technologies and data flows. 
• Dr Maša Galič (VU Amsterdam): Maša Galič is an Assistant Professor of Privacy and Criminal (Procedure) Law at the Criminal law and criminology department of the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam. Maša's research focuses on the regulation of digital investigation powers of the police, which function at the intersection of criminal procedure law and data protection law.