Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Buchan & Lubin: The Rights to Privacy and Data Protection in Times of Armed Conflict

Russell Buchan
(Univ. of Sheffield - Law) & Asaf Lubin (Indiana Univ., Bloomington - Law) have published The Rights to Privacy and Data Protection in Times of Armed Conflict (NATO CCDCOE 2022). This volume is open access. Here's the abstract:
Contemporary warfare yields a profound impact on the rights to privacy and data protection. Technological advances in the fields of electronic surveillance, predictive algorithms, big data analytics, user-generated evidence, artificial intelligence, cloud storage, facial recognition, and cryptography are redefining the scope, nature, and contours of military operations. Yet, international humanitarian law offers very few, if any, lex specialis rules for the lawful processing, analysis, dissemination, and retention of personal information. This edited anthology offers a pioneering account of the current and potential future application of digital rights in armed conflict.