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The Ambiguous Relation Between Privacy and Security in German Cyber Politics

A Discourse Analysis of Governmental and Parliamentary Debates

Authors : Katharina Dimmroth, Wolf J. Schünemann

Published in: Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity in Europe

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Edward Snowden’s revelations regarding the NSA surveillance activities globally reignited debates on the tension between freedom and security. Within those debates, the issues of cybersecurity and data protection are oftentimes part of the same meta-narrative even as they represent differing aspects in the question of how much freedom must be relinquished in order to guarantee a state’s security. This chapter sets out to disentangle the discourses of cybersecurity and data protection in German governmental and parliamentary discourse post-Snowden. To achieve this, we analysed both government and parliamentary documents using the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD). Aside from a meta-narrative of cyber anxiety, we found that problem definitions are used in governmental and parliamentary discourse on cybersecurity and data protection in very similar ways. The frames and narratives regarding proposed solutions offer distinctions, as parliamentary speakers tend to emphasise the importance of privacy and data protection over cybersecurity.

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Title: The Ambiguous Relation Between Privacy and Security in German Cyber Politics
Authors: Katharina Dimmroth
Wolf J. Schünemann
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity in Europe
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-53633-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-53634-7

Copyright Year: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53634-7_7

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