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- Title
While the European Union was Sleeping, the Data Retention Directive Was Passed: The Political Consequences of Mandatory Data Retention.
- Authors
Maras, Marie-Helen
- Abstract
This article examines the political consequences of mass data retention. The objectives of this article are two-fold. It first assesses the situation that might have been expected to occur in the European Union as a result of the implementation of a mass surveillance measure, Directive 2006/24/EC. Usually, measures that affect all citizens invite political resistance. As such, one might have expected that as a result of EU-wide data retention, mass resistance of this measure would ensue. Yet, this situation did not arise. Accordingly, the second task of this article is to explore the current situation in the European Union and explain why public resistance to a mass surveillance measure was largely absent.
- Subjects
EUROPEAN Union; RECORDS management; MASS surveillance; RIGHT of privacy; SOCIAL control; RESISTANCE to government
- Publication
Hamburg Review of Social Sciences, 2011, Vol 6, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1862-3921
- Publication type
Article