Who should have competence to make decisions on protection of personal data? How should that competence be exercised? How should it be distributed? It is with these questions that this paper is broadly concerned. They are fundamental questions that have been resolved differently across jurisdictions and across the years.
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Bygrave, L.A., Schartum, D.W. (2009). Consent, Proportionality and Collective Power. In: Gutwirth, S., Poullet, Y., De Hert, P., de Terwangne, C., Nouwt, S. (eds) Reinventing Data Protection?. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9498-9_9
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