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The EU institutions’ battle over data processing vs individual rights
Policy change in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
(2015)
Abstract
Data protection is a comparatively recent field of legislative activity, regulating a relatively recent human activity. The automated processing of personal data took place only after information technology allowed it to develop in the late 1960s, first in public and subsequently in private organisations. Consequently, when the first EU data protection law was enacted only a handful of countries had a data protection regulatory history of more than a decade. Another aspect important to bear in mind is the inherent cross-border character of personal data processing. Consequently, by definition supranational organisations matter when it comes to data protection. Given these two basic characteristics of data protection, 'policy change' in this field can be considered differently than in other sub-policies of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ). This chapter investigates the role of EU institutions in the process of developing and changing EU data protection rules.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2015
Editor
Florian Trauner, Ariadna Ripoll Servent
Publisher
Routledge
Series
Routledge Studies on Government and the European Union
ISBN
9781138237742
Citation Information
Paul De Hert and Vagelis Papakonstantinou. "The EU institutions’ battle over data processing vs individual rights" 1stPolicy change in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (2015) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/vagelis-papakonstantinou/8/