Psychogiopoulou, Evangelia; Brkan, Maja --- "Introduction: Courts, privacy and data protection in the digital environment" [2017] ELECD 671; in Brkan, Maja; Psychogiopoulou, Evangelia (eds), "Courts, Privacy and Data Protection in the Digital Environment" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 1

Book Title: Courts, Privacy and Data Protection in the Digital Environment

Editor(s): Brkan, Maja; Psychogiopoulou, Evangelia

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781784718701

Section: Chapter 1

Section Title: Introduction: Courts, privacy and data protection in the digital environment

Author(s): Psychogiopoulou, Evangelia; Brkan, Maja

Number of pages: 9

Abstract/Description:

Over the past few years European courts and national courts in several Member States of the European Union (EU) have been called upon to consider a number of cases relating to technological advances with important fundamental rights implications. This introductory chapter discusses the focus of the book and its objectives. It explains that the purpose of the book is to examine judicial attitudes to privacy and data protection in the context of the European multi-level system of rights protection; to investigate the contribution of European and national judiciaries to the development of legal standards and policies that strike an appropriate balance between privacy, data protection and other fundamental rights and interests; and to explore litigation patterns before national and European courts by identifying, in particular, those cases that could be considered as instances of ‘strategic’ litigation. The chapter also presents the structure of the book and gives a brief overview of the content of each chapter. Keywords: European courts, national courts, European multi-level system, privacy, data protection, strategic litigation.