This paper examines threats to privacy and anonymity accompanying underlying technical changes related to the Internet of Things and big data analytics. Governmental and corporate entities have focused on creating sophisticated graphs of citizens' social media connections and aggregating these...

In its Communication "Building a European data economy" the EU Commission discusses the introduction of a new exclusive property right on data ("data producer right") for non-personal (or anonymised) machine-generated data, and mandatory access rights to privately held data for achieving more...

The digitalisation of the economy with data as the new critical resource is a technological revolution which requires an adaptation of the legal framework for markets and the economy. This paper analyzes the privacy concerns in the digital economy from an economics perspective. What can we learn...

In the Internet of Things, access to Data regarding customers, markets and the industry as a whole will make the difference in reference to whether regular brick-and-mortar firms can compete successfully or whether they would fall foul of competition. These firms will often provide their Data to...

Privacy concerns are increasingly at the forefront of debates about data. As a result, there has been a growing focus on privacy issues in advocacy and work on open data. This paper provides a review of privacy issues in open data, taking into account the shifting economic context for the...

Open data are held to contribute to a wide variety of social and political goals, including strengthening transparency, public participation and democratic accountability, promoting economic growth and innovation, and enabling greater public sector efficiency and cost savings. However, releasing...