Paper short abstract:

The ethics of anthropological research is incongruent with formalised research ethics. The implementation of the new EU data protection regulation has the potential to make matters worse. BUT there are also ways in which anthropology can negotiate to acquire more suitable ethics review.

Paper long abstract:

The ethics of anthropological research is incongruent with formalised ethics of research ethics committees (RECs). Relating how the introduction of ethics review came about, the implementation of the new EU data protection regulation promises to make matters worse. This presentation will outline two ways in which the implementation of the new EU general data protection regulation (GDPR), though potentially detrimental to anthropology, could be an opportunity to get ethics review to work for anthropology, rather than other way round.