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Christou, George and Rashid, Imir (2021) Interest group lobbying in the European Union : privacy, data protection and the right to be forgotten. Comparative European Politics, 19 . pp. 380-400. doi:10.1057/s41295-021-00238-5 ISSN 1472-4790.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-021-00238-5
Abstract
The issue of trust and control of data online has become critical for many European Union (EU) citizens in an era where we are increasingly reliant on digital platforms across a plethora of everyday activities. Indeed, the future of the EU’s Digital Single Market Policy is reliant on developing trust through robust legislation that ensures explicit control of data by EU citizens. This article explores the extent to which interest groups have been able to successfully achieve their goals through actions in the European Union institutional spaces that construct privacy and data protection legislation. Specifically, it investigates the intervention of interest groups utilising the ‘right to be forgotten’ (RTBF) in the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a case study. The article shows that issue salience and conflict, as well as institutional politicisation and lobbying by a union of ‘strange bedfellows’ are important factors in determining interest group preference attainment and success and ultimately, who the winners and losers have been in the RTBF decision-making process.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) K Law [Moys] > KW European Union Law |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Right to be forgotten -- European Union countries, Digital media -- Social aspects -- European Union countries, Information technology -- Social aspects -- European Union countries, European Parliament.General Data Protection Regulation, Data protection -- Law and legislation -- European Union countries, European Union, European Union -- Government policy, Lobbying -- European Union countries, Pressure groups -- European Union countries | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Comparative European Politics | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1472-4790 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | June 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 19 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 380-400 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1057/s41295-021-00238-5 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Comparative European Politics. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-021-00238-5 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 2 March 2021 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 March 2022 | ||||||||
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