The Unaccountable State of Surveillance: Exercising Access Rights in Europe

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 thei...