This essay examines the tensions between participatory ethnographic research methods and newly emerging legal regimes of data protection and privacy. Drawing on the example of recent grant‐funded research in Mexico, the essay charts how the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation impedes the practices and ethos of participatory research in significant ways. In particular, new legal requirements about data collection, access and storage, and “the right to be forgotten,” effectively preclude integrating community members into research planning or data collection. As countries around the world move toward more robust and comprehensive data protection and privacy laws, the issues raised in this essay are likely to become more pressing in many different research contexts in the future. [Mexico, data protection, participatory research, privacy laws].

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欧洲（及其他地区）中美洲和数据保护的参与性研究

本文探讨了参与式人种学研究方法与新兴的数据保护和隐私法律制度之间的紧张关系。本文以墨西哥最近获得资助的研究为例，绘制了欧盟《通用数据保护条例》如何严重阻碍参与式研究的实践和精神的图表。特别是，有关数据收集，访问和存储以及“被遗忘权”的新法律要求有效地排除了将社区成员纳入研究计划或数据收集的可能性。随着世界各国朝着更强大，更全面的数据保护和隐私法迈进，本文提出的问题在未来许多不同的研究环境中可能会变得更加紧迫。[墨西哥，数据保护，参与性研究，