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Risk Regulation of Big Data: Has the Time Arrived for a Paradigm Shift in EU Data Protection Law?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Alessandro Spina
Alessandro Spina*
Affiliation:
European Medicines AgencyLondon
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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 2014 , pp. 248 - 252
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References

1 Mayer-Schonberger, Viktor and Cukier, Kenneth, Big Data: A Revolution that will transform how we live, work and think (J.Murray: London, 2013).Google Scholar

2 The full report is available here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/PCAST/pcast_big_data_and_privacy_-_may_2014.pdf (last accessed 26 May 2014).

3 Dennis D. Hirsch, “The Glass House Effect: Big Data, the New Oil and the Power of Analogy”, Maine Law Review (forthcoming 2014), also available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2393792 (last accessed on 26 May 2014); and A.M.Froomkin, “Regulating Mass Surveilance as Privacy Pollution: Learning from Environmental Impact Assessment”, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2400736 (last accessed 27 may 2014).

4 It also foresaw the possibility for national competent authorities to access the data.

5 Respectively, Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

6 Case C-301/06 Ireland v Council and Parliament, [2009] ECR I-00593.

7 Peter Hustinx, Speech on “The Moment of truth for the Data Retention Directive”, Brussels, Friday 03.12.2010.

8 Joined Cases C-465/00, C-318/01 and C-139/01, Österreichischer Rundfunk and Others, [2003] ECR I-4989.

9 Joined Cases C-92/09 and C-93/09, Volker und Markus Schecke and Eifert [2010] ECR I-11063.

10 Cfr. for an insightful discussion, Kokott, Juliane and Botta, Christopher, “The distinction between Privacy and Data Protection in the jurisprudence of the CJEU and the ECHR”, in Hijmans, Hielke and Kranenbord, Herke (eds), Data Protection Anno 2014: How to restore Trust? (Intersentia: Brussels, 2014).Google Scholar

11 Case C-131/12, Google Spain and Google, Judgement of 8 May 2014, not yet reported.