Overview
- Is the first substantive study of exercising access rights across a range of European countries
- Ties in with the rising public awareness of data protection, surveillance and privacy issues arising from the Edward Snowden revelations
- Employs a 'law in action' approach- consisting of rich auto-ethnographic and comparative methodological approaches
- Presents detailed findings from a unique, large-scale research project
Part of the book series: Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 34)
Part of the book sub series: Issues in Privacy and Data Protection (ISDP)
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This book examines the ability of citizens across ten European countries to exercise their democratic rights to access their personal data. It presents a socio-legal research project, with the researchers acting as citizens, or data subjects, and using ethnographic data collection methods. The research presented here evidences a myriad of strategies and discourses employed by a range of public and private sector organizations as they obstruct and restrict citizens' attempts to exercise their informational rights. The book also provides an up-to-date legal analysis of legal frameworks across Europe concerning access rights and makes several policy recommendations in the area of informational rights. It provides a unique and unparalleled study of the law in action which uncovered the obstacles that citizens encounter if they try to find out what personal data public and private sector organisations collect and store about them, how they process it, and with whom they share it. These aresimple questions to ask, and the right to do so is enshrined in law, but getting answers to these questions was met by a raft of strategies which effectively denied citizens their rights. The book documents in rich ethnographic detail the manner in which these discourses of denial played out in the ten countries involved, and explores in depth the implications for policy and regulatory reform.
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Keywords
- ARCO rights (access, rectification, cancellation, and objection)
- Analysis of Exercising Access Rights
- Analyzing redress mechanisms
- Citizens’ personal information
- Comparative legal analyses
- Data controllers
- Data protection and privacy
- Disclosure activities
- Edward Snowden
- Ethnographic-based research methods
- European Directive on Data protection
- Exercising Access Rights
- Exercising subject access rights
- Informational Rights in Europe
- OECD’s guidelines
- Protection of personal data
- State and private agencies
- Surveillance practices
- Trans-border flows of personal data
- Unaccountable State of Surveillance
Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Unaccountable State of Surveillance
Book Subtitle: Exercising Access Rights in Europe
Editors: Clive Norris, Paul de Hert, Xavier L'Hoiry, Antonella Galetta
Series Title: Law, Governance and Technology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47573-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47571-4Published: 06 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83770-3Published: 20 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47573-8Published: 24 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2352-1902
Series E-ISSN: 2352-1910
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 499
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, Legal Aspects of Computing, European Law, Human Rights