General Data Protection Regulation: A framework fit for the 21st Century?

• Jean Gonié

More and more people use online and mobile services to email, shop online, use social networks, communicate via smartphone, and to use many other services related to “cloud computing” or Big Data activities.

The world of data has changed such that data can be used today and in the future for beneficial purposes never envisioned before. For example, the concept of Big Data raises the need for use-based approaches to data governance, and new approaches to personal data management. As innovation increasingly depends on expanded uses of consumer data, it will be essential to unlock the value of this.