Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth Recent documents in Serge Gutwirth en-us Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:26:13 PST 3600 http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/18 http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/18 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:00:19 PST Een reactie op een tekst van Lode Walgrave die tegelijk een aanval is op het restorativisme, en in het bijzonder zijn door Walgrave uitgedragen maximalistische variant Serge Gutwirth http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/17 http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/17 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:28:26 PST This book is about data protection, privacy and liberty and the way these fundamental values of our societies are protected and enforced, particularly in their interaction with the ever developing capacities and possibilities of information and communication technologies.The authors are all closely involved in data protection and privacy. They represent the stakeholders in the debate: practitioners, civil liberties advocates, civil servants, data protection commissioners and academics. Their contributions evaluate current European data protection law against the background of the introduction of increasingly powerful, miniaturized, ubiquitous and autonomic forms of computing. The book assesses data protection and privacy law by analyzing the actual problems (trans-border data flows, proportionality of the processing, and sensitive data) and identifying lacunae and bottlenecks, while at the same time looking at prospects for the future (web 2.0., RFID, profiling) and suggesting paths for a rethinking and reinvention of the fundamental principles and concepts.From this perspective the recent constitutional acknowledgment of data protection as a fundamental right has a transformative power and should create the opportunity for a dynamic, participative, inductive and democratic process of 'networked' re-invention of data protection. The present book aims to make a contribution by seizing on this opportunity. Serge Gutwirth http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/16 http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/16 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:55:33 PST It is impossible to assess legal research on the basis of international bibliometric evaluation techniques more or less widely accepted in other scientific disciplines. To negatively evaluate a Belgian legal researcher because he has too few ISI publications is the same as saying that a Thai restaurant is no good because there are no chips or pizzas on the menu. If legal science has its own validity criteria it should also have its own evaluation criteria. Indeed, the best solution is to use the thorough quality-content assessment and comparative peer review ; but for reasons already explained, the peer review is no longer up to the task. There must also be more quantitative measurements. The question is : what is available ? Is there an instrument besides qualitative assessment by peers that can be used in Belgian legal research to measure output quantitatively Serge Gutwirth http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/15 http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/15 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:11:46 PST Serge Gutwirth http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/14 http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/14 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:58:35 PST Le droit, le mode technique et les science sont des pratiques singulières, différentes et irréductibles. Dès lors, comment les articuler sans les aplatir, sans les trahir ? Il faut donc d'abord bien distinguer leur régimes d'énonciation et modes d'existence propres, afin de pouvoir ensuite penser des modes possibles d'articulation respectueux de leur singularité.Texte remanié de ma présentation au Colloque PRIAM - 20 & 21 novembre 2008 INRIA Grenoble : Les technologies au service des droits : opportunités, défis, limites Serge Gutwirth http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/13 http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/13 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:00:39 PST Presentation of some of the conclusions of "Profiling the European Citizen (2008, Springer) Serge Gutwirth http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/12 http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/12 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:53:04 PST Les différentes pratiques qui sont généralement regroupées sous le terme « web 2.0 » représentent sans aucun doute un défi majeur pour la protection de la vie privée et la protection de données personnelles. Ce défi ne découle cependant pas que des traits particuliers du phénomène « web 2.0 » en tant que tel, c'est-à-dire, en tant que phénomène reposant sur la participation active des utilisateurs à la création et au fonctionnement de sites ou applications. Il est aussi fortement lié au fait que le « web 2.0 » se place au cur d'une dynamique globale de numérisation croissante aussi bien des communications que de la production de « contenu », dans le contexte notamment de la convergence des médias.Cet article a pour ambition de proposer un panorama des principales implications du « web 2.0 » pour la vie privée et la protection des données en tant qu'élément de cette dynamique globale. Ainsi, il identifie en premier lieu une série de risques liés aux sites et applications tels qu'ils existent actuellement (section 2) ; en deuxième lieu, il présente quelques tendances qui peuvent prendre de l'ampleur dans le cadre de pratiques liées aux « web 2.0 » dans un futur proche (section 3). Finalement, sont proposées des pistes à développer pour une meilleure protection de la vie privée et des données personnelles dans le contexte du « web 2.0 » et de son développement futur. Serge Gutwirth http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/11 http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/11 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:39:03 PST Reflections on the organisation of a democratic constitutional state Serge Gutwirth http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/10 http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/10 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:26:32 PST Seemingly, the history of data protection is a success story culminating in the recognition of data protection as a separate fundamental right in the 2000 EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. This paper assesses the future of the approach taken towards data protection. Using Lessig's typology, the EU Charter should be regarded as a transformative constitution rather than as a codifying constitution. Of these two types, the transformative constitution is clearly the more difficult to realize, since it must act when the constitutional moment is over. Lessig is sceptical about the role of the courts when it comes to realizing such a constitutional project. Today European courts at all levels do take up the task of constitutionalising data protection. This paper discusses the process of constitutionalisation of data protection and its reception by the European Court on Human Rights in Strasbourg and the Court of Justice of the European Communities in Luxembourg. Paul De Hert http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/9 http://works.bepress.com/serge_gutwirth/9 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:07:20 PST Texte présenté par Serge Gutwirth lors de la rencontre avec Bruno Latour le 26 janvier 2008 Serge Gutwirth