In the most recent issue of the Economist, in an article and an opinion piece, the British weekly suggests that the new EU data protection regulation may turn out to be a good thing, not because of new individual rights, but because of how it standardizes and professionalizes processes of using personal data, citing Professor Mayer-Schönberger.
Together with French privacy expert Yann Padova, professor Mayer-Schönberger has writtenRegime Change? looking at how Big Data will fare in Europe under the coming new General Data Protection Regulation that was enacted in 2016 and will come into force in 2018. Published by the Columbia Science & Technology Law Review, the article not only assesses Big Data use in Europe in the future, but also offers a surprising path that may enable some (but not all) Big Data uses.
In a Vodafone Institute survey covering eight European nations’ attitudes towards privacy in the age of Big Data, professor Mayer-Schönberger sees the general public shunning the privacy mechanisms European regulators have chosen to ensure the protection of privacy, and calls for a much needed reboot.
Die Vodafone-Siftung präsentierte die Ergebnisse der größten Umfrage über Datenschutz und Big Data in Europa. Die Ergebnisse sind markant: die Menschen trauen vielen Datennutzern nicht, Datenschutznormen greifen offenbar viel zu unzureichend. Eine große Sorge vor der digitalen Technik schwingt ebenso mit. Alles Herausforderungen, mit denen der europäische Gesetzgeber leider nicht ausreichend umgeht meint Professor Mayer-Schönberger in seinem Vorwort, Datenschutzskepsis.