Key developments
- ⚖️ The Court of Justice of the European (CJEU) decides in Digital Rights Ireland (Joined Cases C‑293/12 and C‑594/12) (declaring invalid the Data Retention Directive) and in European Commission v Hungary (C‑288/12) on 8 April 2014, and in Google Spain SL and Google Inc. v AEPD and Mario Costeja González (C‑131/12) on 13 May 2014 (read the written observations of the European Commission in Google Spain). The Court also decides in Ryneš (C-212/13), on 11 December 2014.
Also this year
- 🇪🇺 The European Parliament adopts on 12 March 2014:
- a legislative resolution on the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation) (ordinary procedure: first reading), and
- a Resolution on the US NSA surveillance programme, surveillance bodies in various Member States and their impact on EU citizens’ fundamental rights and on transatlantic cooperation in Justice and Home Affairs.
- 🇪🇺 The European Commission publishes:
- Communication Towards a thriving data-driven economy (COM(2014) 442 final, 2.7.2014).
- The Article 29 Working Party publishes its 16th annual report, covering 2012.
- The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) publishes:
Literature
- Bygrave, Lee A. (2014), Data Privacy Law: An International Perspective, Oxford University Press.
- Citron, Danielle Keats (2014), Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, Harvard University Press.
- Cole, Mark D. and Franziska Boehm (2014), ‘EU Data Retention – Finally Abolished?: – Eight Years in Light of Article 8‘, Critical Quarterly for Legislation and Law, 97(1), 58-78.
- Diggelmann, Oliver, and Maria Nicole Cleis (2014), ‘How the right to privacy became a human right‘, Human Rights Law Review 14.3, 441-458.
- González Fuster, Gloria (2014), The emergence of personal data protection as a fundamental right of the EU, Springer.
- Greenleaf, Graham (2014), Asian Data Privacy Laws: Trade & Human Rights Perspectives, Oxford University Press.
- Gutwirth, Serge, Ronald Leenes, and Paul de Hert (eds.) (2014), Reloading Data Protection: Multidisciplinary Insights and Contemporary Challenges, Springer.
- Computers and Welfare: The Swedish Debate on the Politics of Computerization in the 1970s and the 1980s
- Lundin, Per (2014), ‘Computers and Welfare: The Swedish Debate on the Politics of Computerization in the 1970s and the 1980s‘, 4th History of Nordic Computing (HiNC4), Copenhagen, 3-11.
- Mifsud Bonnici, Jeanne Pia (2014), ‘Exploring the Non-Absolute Nature of the Right to Data Protection‘, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology 28(2) 131-143.
- Piodi, Franco and Iolanda Mombelli (2014), The ECHELON Affair: The European Parliament and the Global Interception System, Historical Archives Unit of the European Parliament, European Parliament History Series.
- Pohle, Jörg (2014), ‘Die immer noch aktuellen Grundfragen des Datenschutzes‘ in H. Garstka, Coy, W. (eds.), Wovon – für wen – wozu. Systemdenken wider die Diktatur der Daten. Wilhelm Steinmüller zum Gedächtnis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 45-58.
- Pohle, Jörg and Andrea Knaut (eds.) (2014), Fundationes I: Geschichte und Theorie des Datenschutzes, Monsenstein und Vannerdat.
- Rallo Lombarte, Artemi (2014), El derecho al olvido en Internet : Google versus España, Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales.
- Reidenberg, Joel R., (2014), ‘The data surveillance state in the United States and Europe‘, Wake Forest Law Review, 49, 583-608.
- Rodotà, Stefano (2014), Il mondo nella rete: Quali i diritti, quali i vincoli, Editori Laterza.
- Schrems, Max (2014), Kämpf um deine Daten, Edition A.
- Slayton, Rebecca (2014), ‘Oral history interview with Lance Hoffman‘, Charles Babbage Institute.
- van der Slot, Bart (2014), ‘Do data protection rules protect the individual and should they? An assessment of the proposed General Data Protection Regulation‘, International Data Privacy Law, 4(4), 307–325.
- Wolf, Christopher (2014), ‘Delusions of Adequacy? Examining the Case for Finding the United States Adequate for Cross-Border EU-U.S. Data Transfers‘, Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, 43, 227.
Films
- 🎬 Citizenfour (2014), documentary film directed by Laura Poitras.
Audio
- 👂 Scaturro, Michael, ‘Meet Germany’s ‘average’ data protesters‘ (podcast), DW, 22 September 2014, Berlin.
In the media
- Kanter, James, ‘A Nudge on Digital Privacy Law From E.U. Official’, The New York Times, 1 April 2014.
- Scott, Mark, ‘Microsoft Touts Data Protection Approval in Europe; Eager for New Customers’, The New York Times, 10 April 2014.
In memoriam
- Jon Bing (30 April 1944 – 14 January 2014). Obituary, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology. ‘RIP, Jon Bing (1944 – 2014)‘, Europa SF – The European Speculative Fiction Portal. See also: ‘Jon Bing – A tribute‘.
Gloria González Fuster 