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...

Last year, the European Commission proposed a comprehensive reform of the EU’s data protection rules. The proposed regulation has been surrounded by fierce controversy and has been the subject of frenzied lobbying by global corporations, industry groups, research centres and privacy...

Chapter 1. Data Sovereignty -- Chapter 2. Digital Governance -- Chapter 3. Conflicts of Law -- Chapter 4. Technical Complexities -- Chapter 5. Comparative Legal Strategies -- Chapter 6. Emerging Topics in Data Sovereignty and Digital Governance.

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...

The interface between the legal systems triggered by the creation, distribution and consumption of Data is difficult to grasp, and this paper therefore tries to dissect this interface by following information, i.e. ‘the data’ from its sources, to users and re-users and ultimately to its...