EU Privacy and Public-Private Collaboration

Abstract

Core state functions, such as law enforcement, are increasingly delegated to private actors. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the development and use of security technologies. This public-private collaboration harbours detrimental consequences for fundamental rights and the rule of law; in particular, for the principle of legality. The policy outcomes which result from this collaboration are not democratically accountable, and allow human rights to be superseded by private, profit-driven interests.

Keywords

• data protection, gdpr, general data protection regulation, Ligue des droits humains, Machine Learning, passenger name record, PNR, privacy, security