Personvernregler og forskningsetikk: Blir det fortsatt mulig å gjøre antropologisk skoleforskning?

The article draws on experiences from generating data for a PhD. During the period of fieldwork in a Norwegian school, new regulations based on EU’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) were implemented. With refer-ence to similar experiences from various Norwegian anthropologists, the article argues that the new regulations mar-ginalise ethnographic work even further. I suggest that an overall positivistic notion of research data might lie behind this, and I argue that a consequence could be that we simultaneously lose ways to perceive and understand silent knowledge and backstage knowledge. Furthermore, I argue that, in some cases, fulfilling the demand for documen-tation might inflict harm on people whom the regulations are intended to protect.