A Comparison Between US and EU Data Protection Legislation for Law Enforcement Purposes
This study was commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the LIBE Committee. The study compares US and the EU legal frameworks on data protection in the field of law enforcement. It reviews US and EU principal legal sources of data protection legislation in the law enforcement and national security context and identifies rights available to individuals. The study further considers newly introduced or proposed US laws such as the USA FREEDOM Act and the Draft Judicial Redress Act and reviews its compatibility with EU data protection standards.
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External author
Franziska Boehm (University of Münster, Institute for Information, Telecommunication and Media Law, Germany)
About this document
Publication type
Policy area
Keyword
- America
- application of EU law
- application of the law
- case law (EU)
- comparative law
- data protection
- disclosure of information
- economic geography
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
- European construction
- European Convention on Human Rights
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- GEOGRAPHY
- information and information processing
- information technology and data processing
- international affairs
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- judicial inquiry
- justice
- LAW
- personal data
- political geography
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- protection of privacy
- public safety
- rights and freedoms
- sources and branches of the law
- United States