Interest group lobbying in the European Union: privacy, data protection and the right to be forgotten
Christou, G; Rashid, I
Date: 11 March 2021
Article
Journal
Comparative European Politics
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
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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 ...
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.
Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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