The sixth edition of this standard textbook has been expanded to include the following elements: a European perspective on the balance between freedom of opinion, freedom of information, and data protection; big data, espionage, and drones; the convergence of man and machine; EU Court of Justice decisions on data retention, the principle of proportionality; the ethics of surveillance and EU data protection reform.

Marie-Theres Tinnefeld (HS München); Benedikt Buchner (Univ. Bremen); Thomas Petri (HS München); Hans-Joachim Hof (TH Ingolstadt)