1. PART I - Fundamental concepts. Data protection in the case law of Strasbourg and Luxemburg: constitutionalisation in action. 2. The right to informationalself-determination and the value of self-development: reassessing the importance of privacy for democracy. 3. Data protection as a fundamental right. 4. Consent in data protection law: privacy, fair processing and confidentiality. 5. The concepts of identity and identifiability: legal and technical deadlocks for protecting human rights in the information society? PART II - The actors. 6. Role of trade associations: data protection as a negotiable issue. 7. The role of data protection authorities. 8. The role of citizens: what can Dutch, Flemish and English students teach us about privacy? PART III - Regulation. 9. Consent, proportionality and collective power. 10. Is a global data protection regulatory model possible? 11. Technical standards as data protection regulation. 12. Privacy actors, performances and the future of privacy protection. PART IV - Specific issues. First pillar and third pillar: need for a common approach on data protection? 14.Who is profiling who? Invisible visibility. 15. Challenges in privacy advocacy. 16. Developing an adequate legal framework for international data transfers. 17. Towards a common european approach to data protection: a critical analysis of data protection perspectives of the Council of Europe and the European Union. 18. Freedom of information versus privacy: friends or foes? 19. Privacy protection on the internet: risk management and networked normativity. Towards a new generation of data protection legislation.