Judicial attitudes to the problem of state sponsored mass cyber surveillance - a comparative analysis of the recent jurisprudence of the UN HRC, the ECtHR and the CJEU

Watt, Eliza ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3903-8631 (2021) Judicial attitudes to the problem of state sponsored mass cyber surveillance - a comparative analysis of the recent jurisprudence of the UN HRC, the ECtHR and the CJEU. In: European Society of International Law Krakow-Leiden Symposium: Exploring the Frontiers of International Law in Cyberspace, 25 June 2021, Leiden University, The Netherlands. . [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Abstract

The paper analysis the manner in which the international human rights courts and bodies (in particular the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)) interpret the rules on privacy and data protection and how they apply them to mass digital surveillance practices conducted by states. If argues that the approach taken by these courts produced a polarised legal landscape, which reinforces the need for an international lex specialis to address states' mass cyber surveillance practices, preferably in a form of an international treaty and accesses the feasibility of such a body of rules being adopted by states.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Research Areas: A. > School of Law > Law and Politics
Item ID: 35344
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Depositing User: Eliza Watt
Date Deposited: 02 Aug 2022 15:27
Last Modified: 29 Nov 2022 17:49
URI: https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/35344

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