The Unaccountable State of Surveillance
Exercising Access Rights in Europe
Editors: Norris, C., de Hert, P., L'Hoiry, X., Galetta, A. (Eds.)
- 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
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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 are simple 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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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Unaccountable State of Surveillance
- Book Subtitle
- Exercising Access Rights in Europe
- Editors
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- Clive Norris
- Paul de Hert
- Xavier L'Hoiry
- Antonella Galetta
- Series Title
- Issues in Privacy and Data Protection
- Series Volume
- 34
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-47573-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-47573-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-47571-4
- Series ISSN
- 2352-1929
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 499
- Number of Illustrations and Tables
- 22 b/w illustrations
- Topics
