Cobwebs of control: the two imaginations of the data controller in EU law | International Data Privacy Law | Oxford Academic
Michèle Finck, Cobwebs of control: the two imaginations of the data controller in EU law, International Data Privacy Law, Volume 11, Issue 4, November 2021, Pages 333–347, https://doi-org.ezproxy.universitetetioslo.no/10.1093/idpl/ipab017 Michèle Finck is Professor of Law and Artificial Intelligence, University of Tübingen. This research was carried out while she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany. Michèle Finck, Cobwebs of control: the two imaginations of the data controller in EU law, International Data Privacy Law, Volume 11, Issue 4, November 2021, Pages 333–347, https://doi-org.ezproxy.universitetetioslo.no/10.1093/idpl/ipab017 Article 4(7) of the General Data Protection Regulation1 (‘GDPR’) defines the data controller as the natural or legal person that determines the purposes (the ‘why’) and the means (the ‘how’) of personal data processing.2 Article 24 provides that ‘[w]here two or more controllers jointly