This book documents and explains the differences in the ways Americans and Europeans approach the issues of privacy and intelligence gathering.

Introduction; Privacy and power: a transatlantic dialogue in the shadow of the NSA-Affair Russell A. Miller; Part I. Privacy and Data-Protection for the Digital Age: 1. Foucault's panopticon - a model for NSA surveillance? Sarah Horowitz; 2. A rose by any other name? The comparative law of the NSA-Affair Russell A. Miller; 3. Privacy as a public good Joshua Fairfield and Christoph Engel; 4. The right to data protection: a no right thesis Ralf Poscher; Part II. Framing the Transatlantic Debate: 5. Privacy, Rechtsstaatlichkeit, and the legal limits on extraterritorial surveillance Anne Peters; 6. Privacy, hypocrisy, and a defense of surveillance Benjamin Wittes; Part III. Transatlantic Perspectives on the NSA-Affair; Section 1. American Voices: 7. Sensing disturbances in the Force: unofficial reflections on developments and challenges in the US-Germany security relationship Ronald Lee; 8. Metadeath: how does metadata surveillance inform lethal consequences? Margaret Hu; 9. 'We're in this together' - reframing EU responses to criminal unauthorized disclosures of US intelligence activities Andrew Borene; 10. Fourth Amendment rights for nonresident aliens Alec Walen; 11. Forget about it? Harmonizing European and American protections for privacy, free speech, and due process Dawn Nunziato; Section 2. European Voices: 12. The challenge of limiting intelligence agencies' mass surveillance regimes: why Western democracies cannot give up on communication privacy Konstantin von Notz; 13. German exceptionalism? The debate about the German foreign intelligence service (BND) Stefan Heumann; 14. The NSU case - structural reform of intelligence agencies' involvement in criminal investigations? Marc Engelhart; 15. Legal restraints on the extraterritorial activities of Germany's intelligence services Klaus Gärditz; 16. Assessing the CJEU's 'Google decision' - a tentative first approach Johannes Masing; Part IV. Transnational Legal Responses to Privacy and Intelligence Gathering; Section 1. International Law: 17. Towards multilateral standards for foreign surveillance reform Ian Brown, Morton H. Halperin, Ben Hayes, Ben Scott and Mathias Vermeulen; 18. Espionage, security interests, and human rights in the second machine age: NSA mass surveillance and the framework of public international law Silja Voeneky; 19. The need for an institutionalized and transparent set of domestic legal rules governing transnational intelligence sharing in democratic societies Susana Sanchez Ferro; Section 2. European Law: 20. Developments in European data protection law in the shadow of the NSA-Affair Jens-Peter Scheider; 21. Why blanket surveillance is no security blanket: data retention in the UK after the European Data Retention Directive Lucia Zedner; 22. Do androids forget European sheep? - the CJEU's concept of a 'right to be forgotten' and the German perspective Bernd Holznagel and Sarah Hartmann; 23. Adequate transatlantic data exchange in the shadow of the NSA-Affair Els De Busser; Part V. Transatlantic Reflections on the Cultural Meaning of Privacy and Intelligence Gathering: 24. The intimacy of Stasi surveillance, the NSA-Affair, and contemporary German cinema Laura Heins; 25. Hans Fallada, the Nazis, and the defense of privacy Roger Crockett; 26. 'It runs its secret course in public' - watching the mass ornament with Dr Mabuse Summer Renault-Steele; 27. Secrecy, surveillance, spy fiction: myth-making and the misunderstanding of trust in the transatlantic intelligence relationship Eva Jobs; 28. CITIZENME: what Laura Poitras got wrong about the NSA-Affair Russell Miller and Stephen Chovanec.