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A Right to Reasonable Inferences: Re-thinking Data Protection Law in the Age of Big Data and AI

Sandra Wachter | Brent Mittelstadt

Numerous applications of ‘Big Data analytics’ drawing potentially troubling inferences about individuals and groups have emerged in recent years. Major internet platforms are behind many of the...

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Commercial Law

Trade in Data: Constructive Limits of Personal Data Ownership

Václav Janeček, St Edmund Hall

Trade in data is becoming crucial for economic growth in Europe. In this context, creating data ownership rights is one way to provide a clear legal framework for the emerging data economy. However,...

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Competition/ Antitrust

The E-Scraper and E-Monopsony

Ariel Ezrachi, Pembroke College | Maurice Stucke, Institute of European and Comparative Law

An e-monopsonist and his cousin the e-scraper are robbing an upstream bank. The alarm is triggered. The nearby antitrust enforcer, seeing them holding bags of cash, asks: ‘Have you seen any suspects...

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