Rocco Bellanova
Rocco Bellanova is a researcher of the Law, Science, Technology and Society at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and of the Centre de Recheche en Science Politique of the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis. His main research interest, and ongoing PhD project, focuses on the powers and politics of data protection, and in particular on what data protection does to security and surveillance practices.
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This report details the post-9/11 programs and agreements implemented by U.S. and European governments to identify terrorists and serious transnational criminals through the collection and processing of increasing quantities of traveler data.
Despite benefits of sharing commercial, government, or personal information for law enforcement and intelligence purposes, U.S. and EU officials have toiled to find a satisfactory legal framework to do so. This report describes and analyzes possible legal, privacy, and data-protection frameworks for information-sharing agreements relating to human mobility.