The EU as an emerging 'Surveillance Society': The function creep case study and challenges to privacy and data protection

Tzanou, Maria

doi:10.1515/icl-2010-0306

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“…Dekkers (2020) has problematized the increase of interoperability – the sharing of information – in the context of migration control in the European Union by addressing the notion of function creep: ‘the expansion of a process or system, where data collected for a specific purpose is subsequently used for another unintended or unauthorized purpose’ (Mordini and Massari, 2008: 490). For instance, the EURODAC system that started as a fingerprint database to enable identification of asylum-seekers and irregular immigrants is now also used in the ‘war on terrorism’ (Besters and Brom, 2010; Tzanou, 2010). The underlying assumption would be that potential terrorists are among the asylum-seekers, creating a need to match migration data with criminal justice data.…”

Section: Reconstructing Intra-schengen Borders For Core and Non-core ...mentioning

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Securitizing mobility: Profiling ‘non-core’ Europeans

Woude

2023

Security Dialogue

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By combining securitization literature and literature from the field of border criminologies, this article reflects upon the ongoing securitization of intra-EU East–West mobility. The European Union is built on the inherent tension between the (economic) benefits and risks of one of its core principles: the principle of free movement. The two enlargements of the EU that led to the inclusion of several countries located in Central and Eastern Europe further increased this tension and led countries in Western Europe to officially reconstruct intra-Schengen borders. By looking into recent practices of (border) policing in the Netherlands, this article illustrates how CEE nationals are subjected not only to a securitized discourse around their mobility but also to securitized policing practices that aim to create a division between ‘core’ and ‘non-core’ Europeans while at the same time distinguishing between possible ‘crimmigrant’ others and bona fide travellers.

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Section: Reconstructing Intra-schengen Borders For Core and Non-core ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Securitizing mobility: Profiling ‘non-core’ Europeans

Woude

2023

Security Dialogue

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“…Although we can distinguish different types of surveillance by the part of public and private actors, they are not easy to separate in practice as they tend to use the same technologies or agree on some forms of partnerships [15]. This highlights the importance of privacy by design, and the development of a technology respectful itself with data protection regulation requirements.…”

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OLYMPUS: A distributed privacy-preserving identity management system

Moreno

Rodriguez

López

et al. 2020

2020 Global Internet of Things Summit (GIoTS)

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Despite the latest initiatives and research efforts to increase user privacy in digital scenarios, identity-related cybercrimes such as identity theft, wrong identity or user transactions surveillance are growing. In particular, blanket surveillance that might be potentially accomplished by Identity Providers (IdPs) contradicts the data minimization principle laid out in GDPR. Hence, user movements across Service Providers (SPs) might be tracked by malicious IdPs that become a central dominant entity, as well as a single point of failure in terms of privacy and security, putting users at risk when compromised. To cope with this issue, the OLYMPUS H2020 EU project is devising a truly privacy-preserving, yet user-friendly, and distributed identity management system that addresses the data minimization challenge in both online and offline scenarios. Thus, OLYMPUS divides the role of the IdP among various authorities by relying on threshold cryptography, thereby preventing user impersonation and surveillance from malicious or nosy IdPs. This paper overviews the OLYMPUS framework, including requirements considered, the proposed architecture, a series of use cases as well as the privacy analysis from the legal point of view.

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“…As the Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee of the DHS in the US similarly proposes, in order to avoid "function creep", 365 the data collected by RFID technology should only be used for the stated objectives and kept "for only as long as necessary to meet the original objective for which it was collected". Function creep "constitutes a breach to the purpose limitation principle" (Tzanou 2010 Especially without technological safeguards, a number of difficulties may still arise in enforcing a prohibition on reading RFID implants (or other RFID tags on a person) without the knowledge and/or permission of the person concerned. 365 The term "function creep" refers to any additional use of personal data beyond the specified purposes for which the personal data was permitted to be collected in the first place.…”

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Privacy-Invading Technologies and Privacy by Design

Klitou¹

2014

Information Technology and Law Series

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The EU as an emerging 'Surveillance Society': The function creep case study and challenges to privacy and data protection

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Securitizing mobility: Profiling ‘non-core’ Europeans

Securitizing mobility: Profiling ‘non-core’ Europeans

OLYMPUS: A distributed privacy-preserving identity management system

Privacy-Invading Technologies and Privacy by Design

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