  The paper examines a question of how much more resources do organized
business interests have when compared to resources of civil society groups in
the context of privacy lobbying in the European Union (EU). To answer to the
question, the paper draws from classical literature on power resources and
pluralism. The empirical material comes from a lobbying register maintained by
the EU. According to the results, (a) there is only a small difference in terms
of the average financial and human resources, but a vast difference when
absolute amounts are used. Furthermore, (b) organized business interests are
better affiliated with each other and other organizations. Finally, (c) many
organized business interests maintain their offices in the United States,
whereas the non-governmental organizations observed are mostly European. With
these results and the accompanying discussion, the paper contributes to the
underresearched but inflammatory topic of privacy politics.
