Rights of access, rectification and erasure all exist under our current rules, the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive.

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Sooner or later, the policies motivating the EU Data Protection Directive will prove to be counter-productive and regressive.

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The investigations were overseen by the Article 29 Working Party, a group of representatives from each member state tasked with promoting the application of the EU's Data Protection Directive.

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