Privacy and data protection are recognized as fundamental human rights. Recent developments, however, indicate that security issues are used to undermine these fundamental rights. As new technologies effectively facilitate collection, storage, processing and combination of personal data government agencies take advantage for their own purposes. Increasingly, and for other reasons, the business sector threatens the privacy of citizens as well.

1. Introduction: Technology and Privacy Michael Friedewald and Ronald J. Pohoryles 2. Developing accountability-based solutions for data privacy in the cloud Andrew Charlesworth and Siani Pearson 3. Legally compatible design of future biometric systems for crime prevention Matthias Pocs 4. Privacy issues in public discourse: the case of ''smart'' CCTV in Germany Norma Möllers and Jens Hälterlein 5. Biocybernetic adaptation and privacy Knud Böhle, Christopher Coenen, Michael Decker and Michael Rader 6. Generational views of information privacy? Priscilla M. Regan, Gerald FitzGerald and Peter Balint 7. Public attitudes towards privacy and surveillance in Croatia Jelena Budak, Ivan-Damir Anic and Edo Rajh 8. Reconciling privacy and security Marc van Lieshout, Michael Friedewald, David Wright and Serge Gutwirth 9. The proposed Regulation and the construction of a principles-driven system for individual data protection Paul de Hert, Vagelis Papakonstantinou, David Wright and Serge Gutwirth 10. Limits and challenges of the expanding use of covert CCTV in the workplace in Spain beyond jurisprudential analysis José R. Agustina and Fanny Coudert 11. Evaluating privacy impact assessments Kush Wadhwa and Rowena Rodrigues 12. Regulating privacy enhancing technologies: seizing the opportunity of the future European Data Protection Framework Gerrit Hornung