Big Data in Context: Legal, Social and Technological Insights

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book sheds new light on a selection of big data scenarios from an interdisciplinary perspective. It features legal, sociological and economic approaches to fundamental big data topics such as privacy, data quality and the ECJ’s Safe Harbor decision on the one hand, and practical applications such as smart cars, wearables and web tracking on the other. Addressing the interests of researchers and practitioners alike, it provides a comprehensive overview of and introduction to the emerging challenges regarding big data.All contributions are based on papers submitted in connection with ABIDA (Assessing Big Data), an interdisciplinary research project exploring the societal aspects of big data and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.This volume was produced as a part of the ABIDA project (Assessing Big Data, 01IS15016A-F). ABIDA is a four-year collaborative project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. However the views and opinions expressed in this book reflect only the authors’ point of view and not necessarily those of all members of the ABIDA project or the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Big Data and Data Quality (Thomas Hoeren)....Pages 1-12 The Importance of Big Data for Jurisprudence and Legal Practice (Christian Döpke)....Pages 13-19 About Forgetting and Being Forgotten (Nicolai Culik, Christian Döpke)....Pages 21-27 Brussels Calling: Big Data and Privacy (Nicolai Culik)....Pages 29-35 Safe Harbor: The Decision of the European Court of Justice (Andreas Börding)....Pages 37-45 Education 2.0: Learning Analytics, Educational Data Mining and Co. (Tim Jülicher)....Pages 47-53 Big Data and Automotive—A Legal Approach (Max v. Schönfeld)....Pages 55-61 Big Data and Scoring in the Financial Sector (Stefanie Eschholz, Jonathan Djabbarpour)....Pages 63-71 Like or Dislike—Web Tracking (Charlotte Röttgen)....Pages 73-80 Step into “The Circle”—A Close Look at Wearables and Quantified Self (Tim Jülicher, Marc Delisle)....Pages 81-91 Big Data and Smart Grid (Max v. Schönfeld, Nils Wehkamp)....Pages 93-107 Big Data on a Farm—Smart Farming (Max v. Schönfeld, Reinhard Heil, Laura Bittner)....Pages 109-120