Joseph Cannataci: the new UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy.In an era of ‘big data’ and mass surveillance revelations, it appears that everything is data and data is everything.
Everyday activities, such as traveling or using different means of communication, may be accessed by law enforcement authorities, not only within the EU, but also shared with the US officials on the other side of the Atlantic.
It goes without saying that this ‘collect-it-all’ mentality, as Lyon puts it, places an enormous burden on the fundamental right to privacy, as enshrined in Articles 7 EUCFR and Article 8 ECHR), which according to some skeptics is already dead anyway.
