Conceptualising the right to data protection in an era of Big Data

In 2009, with the enactment of the Lisbon Treaty, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union entered into force.Under Downstems Article 8 of the Charter, for the first time, a stand-alone fundamental right to data protection was declared.The creation of this right, standing as a distinct right to the right to privacy, is undoubtedly si

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