Towards Future-Proof, Rights-Respecting Automated Data Collection: An Examination of European Jurisprudence

The data scraping and data collection that Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) enable are ubiquitous means of automatically and instantaneously gathering large amounts of online data. Anyone can leverage the capabilities of internet infrastructure to engage in data collection, yet the subjects...

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Published inVanderbilt journal of entertainment and technology law Vol. 26; no. 4; p. 707
Main Author Kokoulina, Olga
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Vanderbilt University, School of Law 22.09.2024
Subjects
Access control
Analysis
Application Programming Interface
Computer crimes
Data entry
Data security
Harm principle (Ethics)
Laws, regulations and rules
Personal information
Prevention
Privacy, Right of
Safety and security measures
Web scraping
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Summary:The data scraping and data collection that Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) enable are ubiquitous means of automatically and instantaneously gathering large amounts of online data. Anyone can leverage the capabilities of internet infrastructure to engage in data collection, yet the subjects of the data collection are often unaware of the full extent to which this personal data harvesting occurs. The accessibility and discreetness of large-scale automated online data collection test the overall fitness of the European data protection framework, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), to provide control to individuals over their personal data while promoting innovation and ensuring legal certainty for all parties concerned.
ISSN:1942-678X