Big data, smart data, my data, your data: Smart data protection by design (Part 1)

“The oil of the 21st century”, “the fuel of the digital economy”, the “data gold rush”. There’s no doubt that data is playing an ever-more important role in both the global society and the economy. The former Article 29 Working Party, renamed European Data Protection Board on 25 May 2018, when the GDPR became directly applicable ...

COE adopts Guidelines on #BIGDATA

On 23 January 2017 the Consultative Committee of the Council of Europe´s data protection convention  adopted Guidelines on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data in a world of Big Data which provide suggested measures for preventing any possible negative effects of the use of Big Data on human rights and ...

It’s all about quality over quantity in data collection: my contribution at the Raiffeisenverband Südtirol Big Data congress

On 2 December I participated in the "BIG DATA Machen wir uns zum gläsernen Menschen?" congress organized by Raiffeisenverband Südtirol, an association of cooperative banks in Bozen (Italy).  The event discussed Big Data and the impact that Big Data has on financial services. My contribution focused on how banks can use data protection compliance as a corporate asset and the ...