In May 2021, the UK National Health Service (NHS) proposed a scheme-called General Practice Data for Planning Research (GPDPR)-for sharing patients' data. Under that system, a patient who does not wish to participate must actively opt out of their data being shared with third parties for...

The adoption of big data analysis in the legal domain is a recent but growing trend that highlights ethical concerns not just with big data analysis, as such, but also with its deployment in the legal domain. This article systematically analyses five big data use cases from the legal domain...

Personal profiling and predictive behavioural analysis done by Big Data applications pose immense challenges to society and democracy, especially when they violate individuals' constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights, such as the rights to privacy and data protection, and the right to...