The Unaccountable State of Surveillance: Exercising Access Rights in Europe

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction - The Right of Access to Personal Data in a Changing European Legislative Framework -- 1.1 The Right of Access in Europe -- References -- Chapter 2: Methodological Remarks -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Methodological Approaches -- 2.2.1 Mapping the Legal and Administrative Frameworks -- 2.2.2 Locating the Data Controller -- 2.2.3 Submitting Access Requests -- 2.3 Sampling -- 2.3.1 Locating the Data Controller -- 2.3.2 Submitting Access Requests -- 2.4 Ethical Considerations -- 2.4.1 Lay Person and Researcher Status - Researchers as Citizens -- 2.4.2 Covert Nature of Researcher's Expert Status -- 2.4.3 Third Party Protocol -- Reference -- Chapter 3: A European Perspective on Data Protection and the Right of Access -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Context and Background of EU Data Protection Law and of Directive 95/46/EC -- 3.3 The Data Subject's Right of Access to Personal Data and Its Interpretation at European Level -- 3.4 European Case Law on the Right of Access to Personal Data -- 3.5 Case Law of the Court of Strasbourg -- 3.6 Case Law of the Court of Luxembourg -- 3.7 What Can We Learn from the European Case Law on Access Rights? -- 3.8 The Promotion of Access Rights by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) -- 3.9 The Promotion and Enforcement of Access Rights by Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) -- 3.10 Conclusion -- References -- Legislation and Case Law -- Literature -- Chapter 4: Exercising Access Rights in Austria -- 4.1 Mapping the Legal and Administrative Frameworks of Access Rights in Austria -- 4.1.1 Introduction -- 4.1.2 Application (Primary and Secondary Legislation) and Interpretation (Case Law) of the Right of Access to Data -- CCTV Signage and Access to CCTV Footage.