Privacy and emerging fields of science and technology: Towards a common framework for privacy and ethical assessment. Deliverable D1: Legal conceptualisations of privacy and data protection.

This document was developed within the PRESCIENT project (see http://www.prescient- project.eu), co-funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

The aim of this deliverable is to provide a state-of-the-art analysis of legal, social, economic and ethical conceptualisations of privacy and data protection, especially in the context of em- erging and future technologies.
To that end, this report presents legal, social, economic and ethical perspectives on three ma- jor issues: the conceptualisations of privacy and data protection, the balancing and trade-offs between privacy/data protection on the one side and security and other values on the other, and the challenges raised by future and emerging technologies (FETs). The work is divided in three parts, each of them containing the four perspectives.
The final conclusions sketch the contrasts and similarities between the different approaches and draw the necessary lessons.