{"id":51,"date":"2016-12-13T13:23:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T13:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savoidakis.eu\/?p=51"},"modified":"2017-03-09T14:38:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T14:38:54","slug":"law-in-the-age-of-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savoidakis.eu\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Law in the Age of Big Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The following opening paragraphs could be from any contemporary data privacy journal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe creation of advanced computer technology has resulted in jurists having to face a range of new and awkward problems. Through interlinking, copying and other automated data processing, modern technology has made it possible to, collect, compare, and combine enormous amounts of data about every person. Also data that in and of itself is not secret can, through its currency, quantity and internal correlation place the individual under the magnifying glass and expose much of his private life &#8230;\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What makes the quote unique, though, is that it was written back in 1978, well before the internet started impacting culture and commerce, by Professor Michael Bogdan of Lund University, and published in the Swedish law journal &#8220;Svensk Juristtidning&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The article addresses the world\u2019s first national data privacy law, that of Sweden, elaborating private international law issues stemming from the complexities surrounding dataflykt (\u2018data drain\u2019 or \u2018data flight\u2019).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since 1978 technological advancements in the field of data processing have been breathtaking, creating challenges that were previously contemplated only by sci-fi novelists. The legal discourse, however, has not managed to keep pace. The relevance of the article referred to above highlights, before anything, that the law will never manage to keep up with the pace of technological developments. How far behind, however, should we accept it to be?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"215\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/savoidakis.eu\/?attachment_id=215\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savoidakis.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/big_data.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"big_data\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo under Creative Commons 3 &amp;#8211; CC BY-SA 3.0.&lt;br \/&gt;\nsource: http:\/\/nyphotographic.com\/&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savoidakis.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/big_data.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savoidakis.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/big_data.jpg?fit=840%2C560&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-215 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savoidakis.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/big_data.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savoidakis.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/big_data.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savoidakis.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/big_data.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savoidakis.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/big_data.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savoidakis.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/big_data.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>In the end, perhaps, it would be more meaningful if we distinguished between \u201clegal thinking and knowledge\u201d on the one hand, and \u201clegal principles\u201d on the other. Professor Bogdan\u2019s 1978 article shows that academic commentary on the relevant legal issues was already then at an advanced stage. Looking, however at modern technological applications such as facial recognition, or Internet of Things, it is striking in how much detail the legal issues arising therefrom are analyzed by the academia and the international legal community. By realizing this, we may arguably assume that legal thinking and knowledge, as such, is not necessarily always the tortoise while technology is the hare disappearing into the horizon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The question here, as posed by Dr Christopher Kuner, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal International Data Privacy Law, in an <a href=\"http:\/\/idpl.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2014\/06\/11\/idpl.ipu013.full.pdf+html\">editorial note<\/a> he published back in 2014, is how we can speed up this conversion of legal thinking and knowledge into appropriate legal principles and rules. This key challenge remains to be addressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following opening paragraphs could be from any contemporary data privacy journal: \u201cThe creation of advanced computer technology has resulted in jurists having to face a range of new and awkward problems. Through interlinking, copying and other automated data processing, modern technology has made it possible to, collect, compare, and combine enormous amounts of data &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/savoidakis.eu\/?p=51\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Law in the Age of Big Data&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,6],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","tag-data","tag-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8gfA0-P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savoidakis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savoidakis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savoidakis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savoidakis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savoidakis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/savoidakis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/savoidakis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savoidakis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savoidakis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savoidakis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}