Compelling truth: legal protection of the infosphere against big data spills.
The paper explores whether legal and ethical concepts that have been used to protect the natural environment can also be leveraged to protect the 'infosphere', a neologism used by Luciano Floridi to characterize the totality of the informational environment. We focus, in particular, on the interaction between allocation of (intellectual) property rights and 'communication duties', in particular, data breach notification duties.This article is part of the themed issue 'The ethical impact of data science'.
School of Law, University of Edinburgh, Old College, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, UK b.schafer@ed.ac.uk.
Burkhard
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6025-4593
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Schafer
big data; copyright; data breach notification; totality operators