"data protection was about the rights and interests of individuals and - in spite of the terminology used - not mainly about the data relating to those individuals." See the full text: "EU Data Protection
“data protection was about the rights and interests of individuals and – in spite of the terminology used – not mainly about the data relating to those individuals.”
See the full text: “EU Data Protection Law: The Review of Directive 95/46/EC and the Proposed General Data Protection Regulation”: Peter Hustinx* (52 pages, pdf)