Data Fundamentalism: What’s in a Name?

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Název: Data Fundamentalism: What’s in a Name?
Autoři: Wisman, Tijmen
Zdroj: European Data Protection Law Review. 11(1):19-32
Informace o vydavateli: Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 2025.
Rok vydání: 2025
Témata: data policy, data fundamentalism, data spaces
Popis: This article introduces the concept of data fundamentalism, a belief system established by the European Commission in its data policy which presents the ever-increasing generation of data in everyday acts by citizens and its usability for a plethora of public and private purposes as inevitable and unequivocal good. It analyses the Commission’s data policy and formulates four dogmas of data fundamentalism. Data protection law plays a pivotal role in this belief system which empowers the EU and its Member States’ invasive policies leading to the gradual erosion of the very idea of the private sphere.
Druh dokumentu: Article
Jazyk: English
ISSN: 2364-284X
2364-2831
DOI: 10.21552/edpl/2025/1/6
Přístupová URL adresa: https://hdl.handle.net/1871.1/7900ae28-191b-444a-8b44-0309f6f98fa9
https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/7900ae28-191b-444a-8b44-0309f6f98fa9
Přístupové číslo: edsair.dris...01222..6e8e6c63c3ede8074f49738407d3b10d
Databáze: OpenAIRE
Popis
Abstrakt:This article introduces the concept of data fundamentalism, a belief system established by the European Commission in its data policy which presents the ever-increasing generation of data in everyday acts by citizens and its usability for a plethora of public and private purposes as inevitable and unequivocal good. It analyses the Commission’s data policy and formulates four dogmas of data fundamentalism. Data protection law plays a pivotal role in this belief system which empowers the EU and its Member States’ invasive policies leading to the gradual erosion of the very idea of the private sphere.
ISSN:2364284X
23642831
DOI:10.21552/edpl/2025/1/6