As the Big Data age is here to stay, both law and technology must together reinforce, in the future, the beneficent use of Big Data, to promote the public good, but also, people’s control on their personal data, the foundation of their individual right to privacy. Finally, Lessig describes how the emerging architecture of the Internet will enable the reemergence of local regulation of behavior on the Internet. It also explores the possible inability to fully anonymize personal data and provides an overview of specific “private networks of knowledge”, which firms may construct, in violation of people’s fundamental rights to data protection and to non-discrimination. This article examines the lawfulness of the data subject’s consent to the processing of their data under the new EU General Data Protection Regulation. As algorithms sort people into groups for various causes, both legitimate and illegitimate, fundamental rights are endangered. by Lawrence Lessig converted from PDF to epub with decent formatting - GitHub - dave-burke/code-v2-ebook: by Lawrence Lessig converted.

The users’ control over the processing of their data appears today mostly lost. Users consent to this processing by ticking boxes when using movable or immovable devices and things. Firms process an enormous amount of raw, unstructured and personal data derived from innumerous sources.

Personal Data, Consent, Control, DiscriminationĪBSTRACT: We live in the Big Data age.

Big Data in the EU: Control Lost, Discrimination Found Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0.

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