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The Right to Anonymity in Political Activities: A Comparative Look at the Notion of Political Surveillance

The Right to Anonymity in Political Activities: A Comparative Look at the Notion of Political Surveillance

Knut Fournier
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781466664333|ISBN10: 1466664339|EISBN13: 9781466664340
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6433-3.ch093
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Fournier, Knut. "The Right to Anonymity in Political Activities: A Comparative Look at the Notion of Political Surveillance." Human Rights and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 1676-1694. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6433-3.ch093

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Fournier, K. (2015). The Right to Anonymity in Political Activities: A Comparative Look at the Notion of Political Surveillance. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Human Rights and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1676-1694). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6433-3.ch093

Chicago

Fournier, Knut. "The Right to Anonymity in Political Activities: A Comparative Look at the Notion of Political Surveillance." In Human Rights and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1676-1694. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6433-3.ch093

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Abstract

The complexity of the right to privacy is particularly striking when the issues at stake are, ultimately, other political rights and freedoms such as the right to free speech and the right of association. The surveillance of individuals and groups by the state has strong political consequences: the surveillance of political activities re-defines what the private sphere is, and displaces its limits, in a context in which more information is becoming available to the public. Multiple recent developments, exemplified by the role of the right to privacy in movies, exacerbated the tensions between Europe and the United States over the notion of privacy. The future EU data protection laws will create a right to be forgotten, whose political value is still unknown.

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