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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.

The Unaccountable State of Surveillance: Exercising Access Rights in Europe

Introduction - The Right of Access to Personal Data in a Changing European Legislative FrameworkXavier L'Hoiry & Clive Norris
Methodological RemarksXavier L'Hoiry & Clive Norris
A European Perspective on Data Protection and the Right of AccessAntonella Galetta & Paul De Hert 
Exercising Access Rights in AustriaJaro Krieger-Lamina
Exercising Access Rights in BelgiumAntonella Galetta & Paul De Hert
Exercising Access Rights in GermanyNils Zurawski
Exercising Access Rights in HungaryIvan Szekely & Beatrix Vissy
Exercising Access Rights in ItalyChiara Fonio & Alessia Ceresa
Exercising Access Rights in LuxembourgRoger Von Laufenburg
Exercising Access Rights in NorwayRocco Bellanova, Stine Bergersen, Maral Mirshahi, Marit Moe-Pryce & J. Peter Burgess
Exercising Access Rights in SlovakiaErik Lástic
Exercising Access Rights in SpainGemma Galdon Clavell
Exercising Access Rights in the United KingdomXavier L'Hoiry & Clive Norris
Exercising Access Rights under Surveillance Regimes in Europe - Meta-Analysis of a Ten Country StudyClive Norris & Xavier L'Hoiry
Mapping the Legal and Administrative Frameworks of Informational Rights in Europe - A Cross-European Comparative AnalysisAntonella Galetta, Paul De Hert, Clive Norris & Xavier L'Hoiry
Conclusion & Post-Script - The Law-in-books and the Law-in-action and the Promise of Regulatory ReformClive Norris & Xavier L'Hoiry