
The Boundaries of Data
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. December 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
332 pages
978-1-041-18735-6 (ISBN)
Description
The legal domain distinguishes between different types of data and attaches a different level of protection to each of them. Thus, non-personal data are left largely unregulated, while privacy and data protection rules apply to personal data or personal information. There are stricter rules for processing sensitive personal data than for 'ordinary' personal data, and metadata or communications data are regulated differently than content communications data. Technological developments challenge these legal categorisations on at least three fronts: First, the lines between the categories are becoming harder to draw and more fluid. Second, working with various categories of data works well when the category a datum or dataset falls into is relatively stable. However, this is less and less so. Third, scholars increasingly question the rationale behind the various legal categorisations. This book assesses to what extent either of these strategies is feasible and to what extent alternative approaches could be developed by combining insights from three fields: technology, practice and law.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
610 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-041-18735-6 (9781041187356)
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Bart van der Sloot | Sascha van Schendel
The Boundaries of Data
E-Book
10/2025
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Bart van der Sloot | Sascha van Schendel
The Boundaries of Data
E-Book
10/2025
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Bart Sloot | Sascha van Schendel
The Boundaries of Data
Book
03/2024
Amsterdam University Press
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Persons
Bart van der Sloot is associate professor specialising in tech and privacy at Tilburg University. He was inter alia a co-author to the WRR Big Data Study and the WODC research into Big Data and procedural law for the 21st Century. Bart has won three prestigious prices and grants: the NWO Top Talent Grant, the NWO Veni Grant and the KNAW Early Career Award. Sascha van Schendel is a post-doctoral researcher in the field of AI and the rights to data protection and non-discrimination at Tilburg University. She was inter alia a co-author to the WRR Big Data Study and the WODC research into Big Data and procedural law for the 21st Century and has many other data protection publications to her name.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction, Chapter 2 - Object Re-identification: Problems, Algorithms, and Responsible Research Practice, Chapter 3: The Quantum Threat to Cybersecurity and Privacy, Chapter 4 - Realistic Face Anonymisation, Chapter 5 Use of bulk data by intelligence and security services: caught between a rock and a hard place?, Chapter 6 Farm Data Sharing: current practices and principles, Chapter 7 Microdata access at Statistics Netherlands, Chapter 8 Atmospheric profiling and surveillance in the Stratumseind Living Lab: pushing the limits of identifiability, Chapter 9 - Data used in governmental automated decision-making & profiling: towards more practical protection, 10. Data: a very short introduction to the EU galaxy and to five potential paths forward, 11. The regulation of access to personal and non-personal data in the EU: from bits and pieces to a system?, Chapter 12: Regulating 'non-personal data': Developments in India, Chapter 13 Data Protection Without Data: Informationless chilling effects and data protection law, Chapter 14 Identity, Profiles and Pseudonyms in the Digital Environment, Chapter 15 Biometric Data, Within And Beyond Data Protection, Chapter 16, Conclusions.