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The Europol Regulation and purpose limitation: from the “silo-based approach to… what exactly? KU Leuven
The Europol Regulation1 entered into force on the 1 May 2017. The instrument has however received little attention and the content was hardly debated. Yet, it brings forth a major change in terms of data protection: the principle of purpose limitation is not implemented anymore through the so-called ‘silo-based approach’. The focus of the Regulation is not on databases but on data processing operations. This article reviews the impact of this ...
The legitimacy of bulk transfers of PNR data to law enforcement authorities under the strict scrutiny of AG Mengozzi KU Leuven
The compatibility of bulk transfers of PNR data to Canadian law enforcement authorities with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights requires clear and precise provisions as regard the scope of the Agreement, the way how the data will be used, the authorities and persons accessing the data, data retention periods, and onwards transfers. Such regimes should be accompanied by strict oversights mechanisms that ensure an independent control and provide ...
Privacy by Design: From research and policy to practice - the challenge of multi-disciplinarity KU Leuven
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. The concept of Privacy by Design (PbD) is a vision for creating dataprocessing environments in a way that respects privacy and data protection in the design of products and processes from the start. PbD has been inspired by and elaborated in different disciplines (especially law and computer science). Developments have taken place in research and policy, with the General Data Protection ...
Body-worn cameras for police accountability: Opportunities and risks KU Leuven
The use of body-worn cameras by police forces around the world is spreading quickly. The resulting mobile and ubiquitous surveillance is often marketed as an instrument for accountability and an effective way of reducing violence, discrimination or corruption. It also involves remarkable potential for intrusion into the privacy of both individuals and police agents. We analyse the deployment of police body-worn cameras in five countries, ...
Limits and challenges of the expanding use of covert CCTV in the workplace in Spain – beyond jurisprudential analysis KU Leuven
This paper analyzes the expanding use of legitimate covert CCTV in the workplace in Spain. By examining the recent evolution of the jurisprudence in that field, we focus on the legal reasons that support court decisions from 2000 to the present and add some criminological and ethical perspectives to better comprehend not only the legal rationale, but also some other collateral effects that employers should take into account in implementing ...
Pervasive Monitoring: Appreciating Surveillance Data as Evidence in Legal Proceeding KU Leuven
Images or video streams, extracted from data acquired through surveillance systems and intended to be used as evidence in court, should have all attributes of conventional digital evidence, meaning that they should be admissible, authentic, reliable, complete and believable. This paper discusses the first three attributes that surveillance systems should comply with to be submitted as evidence in legal proceedings and it identifies some of the ...