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Data Fundamentalism: What’s in a Name?

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Title:	Data Fundamentalism: What’s in a Name?
Authors:	Wisman, Tijmen
Source:	European Data Protection Law Review. 11(1):19-32
Publisher Information:	Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 2025.
Publication Year:	2025
Subject Terms:	data policy, data fundamentalism, data spaces
Description:	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.
Document Type:	Article
Language:	English
ISSN:	2364-284X 2364-2831
DOI:	10.21552/edpl/2025/1/6
Access URL:	https://hdl.handle.net/1871.1/7900ae28-191b-444a-8b44-0309f6f98fa9 https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/7900ae28-191b-444a-8b44-0309f6f98fa9
Accession Number:	edsair.dris...01222..6e8e6c63c3ede8074f49738407d3b10d
Database:	OpenAIRE

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Abstract:	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