Seek and Ye Shall Not Necessarily Find: The Google Spain Decision, the Surveillant on the Street and Privacy Vigilantism

Marion Oswald

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-450-3-99

Seek and Ye Shall Not Necessarily Find: The Google Spain Decision, the Surveillant on the Street and Privacy Vigilantism

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The law is not effectively addressing the potential harm caused by certain digital processing of personal data, as illustrated by the recent Google Spain judgment. A better way of dealing with privacy harms is to regulate at the point in the information lifecycle where the potential for harm is created. This article will review the Google Spain decision and reactions to it, consider the implications for new technologies that facilitate surveillance and profiling by individuals, such as Google Glass, and suggest that permitting limited privacy vigilantism might have a role to play in the solution.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Digital Enlightenment Yearbook 2014
Subtitle of host publication	Social Networks and Social Machines, Surveillance and Empowerment
Editors	Kieron O'Hara, M-H. Carolyn Nguyen, Peter Haynes
Place of Publication	Netherlands
Publisher	IOS Press
Pages	99-115
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9781614994503
ISBN (Print)	9781614994497
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-450-3-99
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

privacy
right-to-be-forgotten
wearable technology
surveillance
personal data
accountable systems

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Seek and Ye Shall Not Necessarily Find: The Google Spain Decision, the Surveillant on the Street and Privacy Vigilantism. / Oswald, Marion.
Digital Enlightenment Yearbook 2014: Social Networks and Social Machines, Surveillance and Empowerment. ed. / Kieron O'Hara; M-H. Carolyn Nguyen; Peter Haynes. Netherlands: IOS Press, 2014. p. 99-115.

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