1st Edition

Data New Trajectories in Law

By Robert Herian Copyright 2021
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the phenomenon of data – big and small – in the contemporary digital, informatic and legal-bureaucratic context. Challenging the way in which legal interest in data has focused on rights and privacy concerns, this book examines the contestable, multivocal and multifaceted figure of the contemporary data subject. The book analyses "data" and "personal data" as contemporary... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1: Beautiful machines and bureaucratic dreams

Chapter 2: Somewhere between privacy and protection

Chapter 3: Being in Data

Chapter 4: Data With Subject

Chapter 5: Proximate data – a conclusion

Index

Biography

Robert Herian is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Open University. His research covers intersections of law, technology, data, and he is also the author of Regulating Blockchain: Critical Perspectives in Law and Technology, Routledge 2018.