Timan, Tjerk; Newell, C. Bryce; Koops, Bert-Jaap --- "Privacy in Public Space" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) [2017] ELECD 1528

Editor(s): Timan, Tjerk; Newell, C. Bryce; Koops, Bert-Jaap

Title: Privacy in Public Space

Sub-title: Conceptual and Regulatory Challenges

Series: Elgar Law, Technology and Society series

Topics: Internet and Technology Law; Regulation and Governance

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 24 November 2017

Number of pages: c 320

ISBN (hard cover): 9781786435392

EISBN: 9781786435408

Abstract/Description:

With ongoing technological innovations such as mobile cameras, WiFi tracking, drones, and augmented reality, aspects of citizens’ lives are becoming increasingly vulnerable to intrusion. This book brings together authors from a variety of disciplines (philosophy, law, political science, economics, and media studies) to examine privacy in public space from both legal and regulatory perspectives.

The contributors explore the contemporary challenges to achieving privacy and anonymity in physical public space at a time when legal protection remains limited in comparison to ‘private’ space. To address this problem, the book clearly demonstrates why privacy in public space needs defending. Different ways of conceptualizing and shaping such protection are explored, for example through ‘privacy bubbles’, obfuscation and surveillance transparency, as well as by revising the assumptions underlying current privacy laws.

Scholars and students who teach and study issues of privacy, autonomy, technology, urban geography and the law and politics of public spaces will be interested in this book.