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Data protection in the age of big data

Europe’s data protection laws must evolve to guard against pervasive inferential analytics in nascent digital technologies such as edge computing.

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Wachter, S. Data protection in the age of big data. Nat Electron 2, 6–7 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-018-0193-y

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