Ojanen, Tuomas --- "Courts, privacy and data protection in Finland: Making privacy and data protection real with a little help from the courts" [2017] ELECD 675; in Brkan, Maja; Psychogiopoulou, Evangelia (eds), "Courts, Privacy and Data Protection in the Digital Environment" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 82

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 5

Section Title: Courts, privacy and data protection in Finland: Making privacy and data protection real with a little help from the courts

Author(s): Ojanen, Tuomas

Number of pages: 19

Abstract/Description:

This chapter examines the right to privacy and the protection of personal data as fundamental rights (later also constitutional rights) in Finland. The focus is on the function and significance of these two rights in the digital environment. Aside from the case law of Finnish courts, the practice of the Constitutional Law Committee of Parliament in the field of privacy and data protection receives careful attention. This is due to the Finnish model of constitutional review of legislation, primarily assuming the nature of an abstract ex ante review by the Constitutional Law Committee of Parliament of legislative proposals and other matters brought for its consideration for their relation to the Constitution and international human rights treaties. Keywords: courts, Constitutional Law Committee of Parliament, right to privacy, protection of personal data, fundamental rights, constitutional review of legislation.