Chronicling GDPR Transparency Rights in Practice: The Good, the Bad and the Challenges Ahead

* Transparency provisions, and the right of access in particular, have been an integral part of data protection law since the seventies but received a much-needed refresh with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Throughout the past few years, judicial and administrative authorities have c...

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Published inInternational data privacy law Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 106 - 133
Main Authors Dewitte, Pierre, Ausloos, Jef
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Published Oxford Oxford University Press 01.05.2024
Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
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2044-4001
DOI10.1093/idpl/ipad026

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Abstract * Transparency provisions, and the right of access in particular, have been an integral part of data protection law since the seventies but received a much-needed refresh with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Throughout the past few years, judicial and administrative authorities have clarified the scope and modalities of access, and a number of empirical studies have shed light the right has (not) been complied with in different contexts. So far, that empirical work has remained relatively disparate and hard to compare.
AbstractList * Transparency provisions, and the right of access in particular, have been an integral part of data protection law since the seventies but received a much-needed refresh with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Throughout the past few years, judicial and administrative authorities have clarified the scope and modalities of access, and a number of empirical studies have shed light the right has (not) been complied with in different contexts. So far, that empirical work has remained relatively disparate and hard to compare.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became applicable on 25 May 2018.1 Rarely has discourse on an EU legal instrument reached beyond law firms, legal departments, and academia. The GDPR, however, directly affected everyone. People were confronted with mushrooming cookie-consent banners across the web, uncertainties at work or their local sports club, and growing attention for data abuses in the media, notably exemplified by the Cambridge Analytica scandal.The rise of the GDPR to popular consciousness also meant a heightened recognition of data subject rights, and in particular the right of access enshrined in Article 15. It is fair to say that this prerogative has become a much-exercised right in the digital society, used by a wide variety of actors in many different contexts and for truly diverse purposes. These range from individuals simply wishing to learn more about how their personal data are being processed on an ad hoc basis, to strategic and collective exercises designed to shed light on opaque digital infrastructures and their impact on people. Notably, the right of access has proven quite valuable for platform workers in the ride-hailing industry, to the eCommerce sector, and academic researchers capitalizing on it in data donation projects.
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Consent (Law)
Data entry
Data integrity
Data security
Disclosure laws
Evaluation
General Data Protection Regulation
Laws, regulations and rules
Personal information
Privacy
Privacy, Right of
Regulation
Right of privacy
Transparency
Workers
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