The Past, Present, and Future of European Data Regulation
Bart van der Sloot author César Augusto Fontanillo López author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:26th Nov '26
£120.00
This title is due to be published on 26th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Is contemporary privacy and data protection regulation—which is based on defining and protecting separate data categories—still viable in the 21st century?
This open access book assesses whether European data regulation can be amended in light of contemporary technological developments.
In an era when data powers our daily lives, economies and societies, data regulation is essential. However, European data regulation is still premised on concepts and foundations that were developed more than 50 years ago.
The book offers an in-depth exploration of the European data regulatory landscape, from its historical roots to the challenges posed by new technological advancements. Through a detailed legal and technical analysis, it explores key data categories – such as anonymised, pseudonymised, aggregated, sensitive data, and metadata – highlighting their fluid and changing nature and the growing possibilities for transitioning between them.
By identifying regulatory tensions and challenges arising from various technologies, such as AI, Big Data and quantum computing, the book offers policymakers, legal scholars, computer scientists and data protection experts different perspectives on how to reshape future privacy and data protection legislation in a rapidly advancing technological world.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
In this magisterial study, Bart van der Sloot and César Augusto Fontanillo López critically revisit the traditional categories of data that structure and animate European laws concerned with regulating the use of data and information technologies. They pose the timely question whether these categories are still fit for purpose as a regulatory point of departure in an age of rampant datafication. While their answer is not a categorical no, they ably show how the categories’ utility is increasingly undermined, and they weigh up the pros and cons of various remedial strategies, also taking account of the approaches taken by selected non-European jurisdictions. All up, this book provides an exceptionally comprehensive, incisive and nuanced parsing of key features of current data regulation, with a firm eye on the needs and challenges of the future. * Lee A. Bygrave, Professor of Law, University of Oslo *
It’s all about the data. This important book provides a crucial roadmap to how EU law defines and governs different types of information. It questions the conventional data classifications in EU law, now over a half-century old, and offers five possible paths forward. A thoughtful and deeply researched deep-dive into a vitally important topic in data protection law. * Paul Schwartz Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology *
ISBN: 9781509988129
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472 pages