Can privacy impact assessment mitigate civil liability? A precautionary approach

Raphael Gellert; Dariusz Kloza

Can privacy impact assessment mitigate civil liability? A precautionary approach

Raphael Gellert, Dariusz Kloza

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Abstract

Privacy impact assessment (PIA) is now considered an important tool to address privacy challenges of the digital era. Unless PIA is already mandatory, regulators need to provide incentive to both public and private sector to conduct PIA and thus a potential limitation or even exclusion of civil liability seems attractive. In this paper we try to understand why PIA can impact this liability by going back to its foundation, i.e. the precautionary principle. In result, a good PIA could demonstrate no fault was committed or could allow resorting to the so-called development risk defence.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Transformation juristischer Sprachen
Editors	Erich Schweighofer, Franz Kummer, Walter Hötzendorfer
Place of Publication	Vienna
Publisher	Osterreichische Computer Gesellschaft
Pages	497-505
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-85403-288-5
Publication status	Published - 24 Feb 2012
Event	Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion: Transformation juristischer Sprachen - Universität Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Duration: 23 Feb 2012 → 25 Feb 2012 https://www.univie.ac.at/ri/IRIS2012/

Publication series

Name	Tagungsband des 15. Internationalen Rechtsinformatik Symposions IRIS 2012

Conference

Conference	Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion
Abbreviated title	IRIS
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Salzburg
Period	23/02/12 → 25/02/12
Internet address	https://www.univie.ac.at/ri/IRIS2012/

Keywords

privacy
data protection
privacy impact assessment
strict liability
fault liability
precautionary principle
development risk defence
PIA
liability
environmental liability

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Gellert Kloza 2012 Can PIA mitigate civil liability
hi dariusz upload to your repository: thats all right, you will find your publications on jusletter-it.eu, (pdf versions). best wishes franz
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http://jusletter-it.weblaw.ch/issues/2012/IRIS/jusletterarticle_1029.html

EU367: PIAF: A Privacy Impact Assessment Framework for Data Protection and Privacy Rights
De Hert, P., De Hert, P. & Kloza, D.
1/01/11 → 31/10/12
Project: Fundamental
EU343: PRESCIENT: Privacy and emerging fields of science and technology: Towards a common framework for privacy and ethical assessment.
Gutwirth, S., Gellert, R. M., De Hert, P. & Bellanova, R.
1/01/10 → 31/03/13
Project: Fundamental

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Gellert, R., & Kloza, D. (2012). Can privacy impact assessment mitigate civil liability? A precautionary approach. In E. Schweighofer, F. Kummer, & W. Hötzendorfer (Eds.), Transformation juristischer Sprachen (pp. 497-505). (Tagungsband des 15. Internationalen Rechtsinformatik Symposions IRIS 2012). Osterreichische Computer Gesellschaft. http://jusletter-it.weblaw.ch/issues/2012/IRIS/jusletterarticle_1029.html

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Gellert, R & Kloza, D 2012, Can privacy impact assessment mitigate civil liability? A precautionary approach. in E Schweighofer, F Kummer & W Hötzendorfer (eds), Transformation juristischer Sprachen. Tagungsband des 15. Internationalen Rechtsinformatik Symposions IRIS 2012, Osterreichische Computer Gesellschaft, Vienna, pp. 497-505, Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion, Salzburg, Austria, 23/02/12. <http://jusletter-it.weblaw.ch/issues/2012/IRIS/jusletterarticle_1029.html>

Can privacy impact assessment mitigate civil liability? A precautionary approach. / Gellert, Raphael; Kloza, Dariusz.
Transformation juristischer Sprachen. ed. / Erich Schweighofer; Franz Kummer; Walter Hötzendorfer. Vienna: Osterreichische Computer Gesellschaft, 2012. p. 497-505 (Tagungsband des 15. Internationalen Rechtsinformatik Symposions IRIS 2012).

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Can privacy impact assessment mitigate civil liability? A precautionary approach

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EU367: PIAF: A Privacy Impact Assessment Framework for Data Protection and Privacy Rights

EU343: PRESCIENT: Privacy and emerging fields of science and technology: Towards a common framework for privacy and ethical assessment.

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