Surveillance Law, Data Retention and Human Rights: A Risk to Democracy
Author:   Matthew White
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032076003


Pages:   380
Publication Date:   22 May 2026
Format:   Paperback
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Surveillance Law, Data Retention and Human Rights: A Risk to Democracy


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Author:   Matthew White
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032076003


ISBN 10:   1032076003
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   22 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and Methodology; 2. An Introduction to Communications Data Retention and its (il)legality; 3. Communications data is just as, if not more, intrusive than content; 4. Data Retention, a fundamental rights issue? Article 8 ECHR and Article 7 EU Charter underpinning democracy in the digital age?; 5. Communications Data Retention as Mass Secret Surveillance within Surveillance?; 6. Who is obligated to retain? Everything that ‘communicates’?; 7. Data Retention is Incompatible with the ECHR– Legality and Legitimacy; 8. Data Retention is Incompatible with the ECHR – Necessity, Proportionality, Articles 6 and 14 and Data Protection; 9. Conclusions

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'A thorough legal analysis of the implications of such pervasive data retention regimes for fundamental rights, as presented in the book…by Matthew White, will be highly valuable for anyone involved in the future policy debate on these issues.' Jesper Lund, Chairman of IT-Political Association of Denmark. 'This is particularly useful as providing an in depth treatment of a particular and distinctive form of surveillance – data retention – which presents very different issues compared to more targeted forms of surveillance such as interception of communications. It goes beyond the doctrinal and rights focused legal literature and engages with the wider surveillance studies interdisciplinary field.' Dr TJ McIntyre, Associate Professor UCD Sutherland School of Law.


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Matthew White is Research Fellow at the University of Southampton.

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