The legacy of the privacy versus security narrative in the ECtHR's jurisprudence

Watt, Eliza ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3903-8631 The legacy of the privacy versus security narrative in the ECtHR's jurisprudence. Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional. [Other] (doi:10.17176/20220421-182404-0)

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Abstract

The post traces the modern culture of mass surveillance to the UN policy of counterterrorism resulting from the 9/11 attacks on the United States. It argues that balancing security needs with privacy rights on the basis of the traditional security/privacy trade-off is misguided, and identifies the complexities involved in the modern culture of surveillance. Further, it highlights that the security narrative has always played an important role in the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) law making, ultimately leading to the Court’s embracing of mass surveillance practices.

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Additional Information: SUGGESTED CITATION Watt, Eliza: The legacy of the privacy versus security narrative in the ECtHR’s jurisprudence, VerfBlog, 2022/4/21, https://verfassungsblog.de/os6-privacy-vs-security/, DOI: 10.17176/20220421-182404-0.
Research Areas: A. > School of Law > Law and Politics
Item ID: 35342
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Depositing User: Eliza Watt
Date Deposited: 01 Jul 2022 15:47
Last Modified: 02 Aug 2022 11:47
URI: https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/35342

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