The development of computer technology raised concerns for the privacy of the individuals to whom data being processed relates. Soon European nations began adopting data protection laws to protect the privacy of individuals, eventually regulating what had become known as “cyberspace.” To allow for the free flow of personal data within the European ...
The digitalized economy poses challenges and issues to traditional corporate taxation that require modifications in the way companies are taxed under international tax law. The thesis discusses two tax proposals to face some of the main issues, such as the intangibility of business assets and operations, the lack of physical presence of businesses ...
This paper presents a selection of legal topics in the context of data analytics and Big Data from a lawyer’s perspective. After introducing the reader to the role of law, both in the analogue and the digital world (1), the paper gives a systematic overview of some of the currently most relevant data-related legal topics (2). While digitalisation a...
Published in Life Sciences, Society and Policy
Broad consent – the act of gaining one consent for multiple potential future research projects – sits at the core of much current genomic research practice. Since the 25th May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has applied as valid law concerning genomic research in the EU and now occupies a dominant position in the legal landscape...
Since the notion of fairness underpins the regimes of competition, data protection, and consumer law, it can act as a connecting factor to align substantive protections and enforcement mechanisms in the three fields. While most attention has so far been devoted to how vigorous competition enforcement can render data protection rules more effective,...
Être sur internet, c’est exister comme un être de données constituant des profils qui doublent l’existence des individus physiques et leur survivent. À l’avenir, internet est donc appelé à contenir plus de données post mortem que de données personnelles relatives à des personnes vivantes. Quel sort réserver à ces données ? Pendant longtemps, le dro...
Published in Philosophy & Technology
The paper focuses on concerns and legal challenges brought on by the use of algorithms. A particular class of algorithms that augment or replace analysis and decision-making by humans, i.e. data analytics and machine learning, is under scrutiny. Taking into account Balkin’s work on “the laws of an algorithmic society”, attention is drawn to obligat...
Published in Journal of Consumer Policy
Online shops could offer each website customer a different price. Such personalized pricing can lead to advanced forms of price discrimination based on individual characteristics of consumers, which may be provided, obtained, or assumed. An online shop can recognize customers, for instance through cookies, and categorize them as price-sensitive or ...
Published in Health and Technology
The right to privacy generally belongs to constitutionally protected rights and is listed with fundamental human rights in international human rights instruments. Personal health information is particularly important element of private life, and health data is defined and accepted as sensitive personal data. Modern computer and information technolo...
Published in Liverpool Law Review
The right to personal data protection is, without doubt, an important right in the jurisprudence of rights in the contemporary information society. It is becoming as crucial as other orthodox human rights and also attracting significant attention from academics, lawyers, human rights activists and policy makers. In spite of the growing attention da...
