This groundbreaking book explores the new legal and economic challenges triggered by big data, and analyses the interactions among and between intellectual property, competition law, free speech, privacy and other fundamental rights vis-à-vis big data analysis and algorithms.
Offering both theoretical and practical insights, contributions illustrate the disruptive nature of the data-driven economy. Chapters discuss how products and services are digitalised and broken into bits, that in turn are reassembled, traded and used across sectors and borders, in contrast to how algorithms are already used to influence our choices, govern our news feeds and revolutionise business models at large. Having shown algorithms and big data to be the two fundamental driving forces of the new information society, expert authors explore which policy options, institutional frameworks and values should be adopted by lawmakers and regulatory authorities in order to ensure a fair balance between private interests such as competition, innovation and the fundamental rights of individuals.
Innovatively combining both public and private law perspectives, this unique book will provide a valuable resource for scholars and students of information and technology law, media law, privacy, regulatory and human rights law. Its attention to the latest developments will also prove essential for policymakers and practitioners working in related areas.
Edited by Joe Cannataci, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy, Head of the Department of Information Policy and Governance, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences, University of Malta and Chair of European Information Policy and Technology Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Valeria Falce, Jean Monnet Professor in European Innovation Policy, European University of Rome, Italy and Oreste Pollicino, Full Professor of Constitutional Law, Bocconi University, Italy, member of the Sounding Board on Disinformation, expert for the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), and member of the board of the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA)