PT Journal
AU van der Sloot, B
TI Privacy in the Post-NSA Era:  Time for a Fundamental Revision?
SO JIPITEC
PY 2014
BP 2
EP 11
VL 5
IS 1
DE Big Data; ECHR; Human Rights; NSA; Privacy; Right of Complaint; Right to Privacy
AB Big Brother Watch and others have filed a complaint against the United Kingdom under the European Convention on Human Rights about a violation of Article 8, the right to privacy. It regards the NSA affair and UK-based surveillance activities operated by secret services. The question is whether it will be declared admissible and, if so, whether the European Court of Human Rights will find a violation. This article discusses three possible challenges for these types of complaints and analyses whether the current privacy paradigm is still adequate in view of the development known as Big Data.
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