School of Law University of Edinburgh Old College South Bridge Edinburgh EH8 9YL UK
Biographical Details
Judith Rauhofer is a Lecturer in IT Law at the University of Edinburgh and an Associate Director of the AHRC/SCRIPT centre. Her research interests include all areas of internet law and policy, e-commerce, online privacy, data protection, information security and electronic surveillance.
Previously, she worked in legal practice in Liverpool, London and Manchester for six years, advising clients from the media and new media industries on aspects of e-commerce, data protection and IT law. She continues to provide consultancy services in the area of e-commerce and data protection compliance.
'The role of law interpretation to the protection of Digital Identity Rights'
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Judith Rauhofer '”Privacy is dead, get over it!” Information privacy and the dream of a risk-free society' (2008) Information and Communications Technology Law Vol. 17 Issue 3, pp. 185-197
Judith Rauhofer, Marie-Theres Tinnefeld 'Whistleblower: Verantwortliche Mitarbeiter oder Denunzianten? Fragen im Feld von Ethikrichtlinien, des Datenschutzes und der Mitbestimmung’' (2008) Datenschutz und Datensicherheit Vol. 32, No. 11, pp. 717-723
Judith Rauhofer 'Blowing the whistle on Sarbanes-Oxley: Anonymous hotlines and the historical stigma of denunciation in modern Germany' (2007) International Review of Law, Computers and Technology Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 363-376
Judith Rauhofer ''Defence against the Dark Arts: How the British Response to the Terrorist Threat Is Parodied in J K Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince' (2007) International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry Vol. 1, Nos. 1/2, pp. 94-113
Judith Rauhofer ''Just because you're paranoid, doesn’t mean they're not after you: legislative developments in relation to the mandatory retention of communications data in the UK and the European Union' (2006) SCRIPT-ed Vol. 3 Issue 4, pp. 322-343
Judith Rauhofer ''Die Vorratsdatenspeicherung als Instrument sozialer Kontrolle - Eine deutsch/britische Perspektive' (2006) Datenschutz Nachrichten Vol. 2, pp. 56-59
Chapters
Judith Rauhofer 'Diskriminierende Auswertung der Überwachung im öffentlichen Raum' in Heiner Bielefeldt, Volkmar Deile, Brigitte Hamm, Franz-Josef Hutter, Sabine Kurtenbach and Hannes Tretter (eds) Nothing to hide - nothing to fear?: Datenschutz - Transparenz - Solidarität. Jahrbuch Menschenrechte 2011 (Boehlau Verlag, 2011) pp.63-73
Judith Rauhofer, Lilian Edwards and Majid Yar 'Recent Developments in UK Internet Law’' in Yvonne Jewkes and Majid Yar (eds) Handbook of Internet Crime (Willan, 2009) pp.437-465
Judith Rauhofer 'The Retention of Communications Data in Europe and the UK' in Charlotte Waelde, Lilian Edwards (eds) Law and the Internet (Hart, 2009) pp. 575-600
Judith Rauhofer 'Privacy and Surveillance: Legal and Socioeconomic Aspects of State Intrusion into Electronic Communications' in Charlotte Waelde, Lilian Edwards (eds) Law and the Internet (Hart, 2009) pp. 545-574
Judith Rauhofer 'The Possibility of a Registered Partnership under German Law' in Leslie Moran, Daniel Monk and Sarah Beresford (eds) Legal Queeries: lesbian, gay and transgender legal studies (Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 1998)
Papers and Presentations
Abbe Brown, Judith Rauhofer, Phoebe Li 'Responses to consultations - the BILETA contribution' presented at BILETA, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2011
Judith Rauhofer 'Right on track? The issue of consent in online behavioural advertising' presented at BILETA, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2011
Judith Rauhofer 'It's the nutjobs that will survive! In praise of paranoia' presented at GikII VI (2011), Gothenburg, 2011
Judith Rauhofer 'Information privacy, data mining and potential harms: social harms of OBA tracking (workshop organiser)' presented at AHRC/SCRIPT and BILETA Policy Forum on Online Behavioural Advertising, University of Edinburgh, 2011
Judith Rauhofer 'Right on track? Some musings on the regulation (or not) of location data collection' presented at ACM Web Science Conference 2011, Koblenz, Germany, 2011
Judith Rauhofer 'In the twilight zone of privacy law' presented at Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in a Networked Society -- the 20th annual CFP conference, San Jose, California, 2010
Judith Rauhofer '‘”…but they wouldn’t do that” - Cultural differences in attitudes towards privacy as a common value' presented at BILETA, Vienna, 2010
Judith Rauhofer 'Beware of the leopard: user protection in a Web 2.0 world' presented at IRIS, Salzburg, 2010
Judith Rauhofer 'Privacy and Human Rights: An international comparison' presented at Amberhawk Data Protection Seminar, Pinsent and Mason LLP, Manchester, 2010
Judith Rauhofer 'Data security breach notification: a European view' presented at Information Security Best Practices, Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, 2009
Judith Rauhofer 'Quo vadis Vorratsdatenspeicherung? Wo kein Richter, da kein Recht?' presented at IRIS (2009), University of Salzburg, 2009
Judith Rauhofer 'To have and have not: the retention of communications data between liberty, security and social cohesion' presented at WebSci’09: Society online, Athens, 2009
Judith Rauhofer 'You never talk alone: surveillance of online communications' presented at BILETA Annual Conference, Winchester, 2009
Judith Rauhofer 'Get out of my head bloodsucker: Notions of surveillance in the vampire mind' presented at Gikii 4, Institute for Information Law, Amsterdam, 2009
Judith Rauhofer 'Privacy is dead – get over it: Art. 8 and the dream of a risk-free society' presented at SLSA Annual Conference (2008), University of Manchester, 2008
Judith Rauhofer 'Closing the stable door after the data has bolted: The commoditisation of privacy: How much time have we got left?' presented at BILETA Annual Conference, Glasgow, 2008
Judith Rauhofer 'Privacy and the right to informational self-determination' presented at Joint Annual Meetings of the Law and Society Association and Canadian Law and Society Association, Montreal, 2008
Judith Rauhofer 'Is all gossip created equal? Privacy, reputation and harmful speech on the internet' presented at Knowledge Rights - Legal, Societal and Related Technological Aspects (Know Right08), Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, 2008
Judith Rauhofer 'Invited member of a panel on data retention organised by the All Party Parliamentary Communications Group (apcomms)' presented at 2008 Parliament and Internet Conference, London, 2008
Judith Rauhofer 'Blowing the whistle on Sarbanes-Oxley: Anonymous hotlines and the historical stigma of denunciation in modern Germany' presented at IRIS, Salzburg, 2007
Judith Rauhofer 'Disclosure – The dark side of the Web' presented at Law 2.0? : New Speech, New Property, New Identity - Second SCL Policy Forum, Society for Computers & Law at Herbert Smith Solicitors, London, 2007
Judith Rauhofer 'Open doors and hidden agendas: How governments and businesses use new security threats to distort traditional trade-offs in the law' presented at BILETA Annual Conference, University of Malta, 2006
Judith Rauhofer ''Defence against the Dark Arts: How the British Response to the Terrorist Threat Is Parodied in J K Rowling’s 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince!' presented at First International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy Issues in IT (LSPI), Elysee Hotel Hamburg, 2006
Judith Rauhofer ''Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you: legislative developments in relation to the retention of communications data' presented at SLSA, University of Liverpool, 2005
Judith Rauhofer ''Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you: legislative developments in relation to the retention of communications data' presented at 20th BILETA conference, Belfast 2005, Belfast, 2005
Judith Rauhofer 'History does not matter to them: the EU and data retention issues' presented at KnowRight Conference 2006 - Knowledge Rights - Legal, Societal and Related Technological Aspects, University of Vienna, 2005
