The implicit logic operating here is that once we are furnished with an explanation, we will be able to act on it in some way. But this places the burden of responsibility on the person the law refers to as the âdata subject,â who is required to seek out an explanation, and then exercise prudence in their choices once itâs been provided to them. The right enunciated here is thoroughly consonant with the neoliberal practice of governmentality, which tends to individualize hazards and recast them as issue of personal responsibility or moral failure, rather than structural and systemic issues. Itâs a conception of good governance that conflates transparency with accountability: if the information is available, youâre expected to act upon it, and if you donât, itâs nobody elseâs fault but your own. This clearly relies entirely too much on the initiative, the bravery, and the energy of the individual, and fails to account for those situations, and they will be many, in which that individual is not offered any meaningful choice of action.Â