Scoping Personal Data: Towards a Nuanced Interpretation of the Material Scope of EU Data Protecton Law

The concept of personal data - any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person - is a cornerstone of the European data protection framework since its very inception. The processing of personal data is a conditio sine qua non for the applicability of EU data protection law. Despite the crucial importance of the notion,...

Open Data Exposed

This book is about open data, i.e. data that does not have any barriers in the (re)use. Open data aims to optimize access, sharing and using data from a technical, legal, financial, and intellectual perspective. Data increasingly determines the way people live their lives today. Nowadays, we cannot imagine a life without real-time traffic...

Personal Data Protection as a Nonfunctional Requirement in the Smart City’s Development

“Smart city” is a buzzword, highly hyped up and evading a unitary characterisation. Its blurriness is highlighted by the broad array of definitions with which academic and corporate literature have attempted at delineating the notion. This paper derives from the elaboration of several definitions that have been given to the concept of smart city...