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...

Big data is the hot buzzword across industries and data is playing an increasingly important role in how businesses compete on the markets. In the digital economy, big data represents a core economic asset that can create significant competitive advantage for companies. Although the collection...

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...