Digitally Monitored

Freedom, Surveillance, and the Law
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5099-9189-1
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing plc

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Hart Publishing

This book explores the rights of individuals subjected to digital surveillance and monitoring through a range of legal and theoretical perspectives.

As digitisation transforms how states, private entities, and individuals use surveillance-across criminal justice systems, workplaces, and in our personal lives-it enables increasingly pervasive forms of monitoring and blurs the boundaries between public and private spaces. This shift raises complex questions about privacy, discrimination, and accountability.

While these issues have often been examined in isolated contexts, Digitally Monitored takes a broader view, establishing digital monitoring as a distinct field of enquiry. Together, the chapters address a set of overarching themes that emerge when digital monitoring is viewed more holistically. These include the justifications for monitoring (such as public safety and employee productivity) versus the protection of individual rights, potential infringements on individual liberty, evolving notions of privacy, heightened risks to vulnerable groups posed by biased technologies, and the role of Big Tech in the collection and use of data.

The chapters offer a range of perspectives on digital monitoring from various legal angles, including public, private, and international law. By establishing digital monitoring as a distinct area of study, the book deepens our understanding of the values embedded in monitoring practices and advances the articulation and protection of the rights of those under surveillance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Noorda, Hadassa

Hariharan, Jeevan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The Nature, Scope and Legal Complexity of Digital Monitoring, Hadassa Noorda (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and Jeevan Hariharan (University College London, UK)

Part 1: Digital Monitoring and the Role of Human Rights Law
2. Privacy and Digital Monitoring in Regional Human Rights Law: Moving Forward, One Step at a Time, Eleni Frantziou (Durham University, UK)
3. Electronic Monitoring of Migrants, Virginia Mantouvalou (University College London, UK)

Part 2: The Digitally Monitored Worker
4. Managerial Authority and the Boundaries of Legitimate Workplace Monitoring, Joe Atkinson (University of Southampton, UK)
5. Employee Monitoring and the Right to Disconnect: What is at Stake?, Nuna Zekic (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
6. Labour is Not a Commodity, Employer Authority is? The Consumption of Digital Monitoring at Work and its Regulation, Michele Molè (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)

Part 3: Privacy, Intimacy and the Digitally Monitored Self
7. Intimate Digital Monitoring: A Tale of Two Case Studies, Tsachi Keren-Paz (University of Sheffield, UK)
8. The Privacy of (Not) Being Seen: A Right for the Digital Age, Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany)
9. Legal Protection as the Protection of the Incomputable Self, Mireille Hildebrandt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and Radboud University, the Netherlands)

Über Autor(innen)

Hariharan, Jeevan
Jeevan Hariharan is Lecturer in Law at University College London, UK.

Noorda, Hadassa
Hadassa Noorda is Associate Professor in Criminal Law at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Hadassa Noorda is Associate Professor in Criminal Law at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Jeevan Hariharan is Lecturer in Law at University College London, UK.