Objetivo Information can harm people. Think of being denied mortgage or insurance based on your grocery shopping or online surfing profile. But what exactly is it in information that is harmful, and how can people be protected? The current legal answer is that protection (data protection principles, rights and obligations) is granted when a) there is information b) about or potentially affecting a person c) who is identified or identifiable. This is Personally Identifiable Information (PII). But now that virtually all information is PII, how can law meaningfully protect against information-induced harms?Given modern data collection and processing techniques and unprecedented amounts of data available for analysis, everything can be translated into data and anyone can be identifiable in data sets. Therefore, PII-based legal protection will fail, since a law regulating everything is meaningless. Yet, alternatives for structuring legal protection other than through the concept of PII are lacking. INFO-LEG innovates by looking for substitutes for the notion of PII to fundamentally re-organise legal protection. Promising new organising notions will be found through better understanding of information, how it links to people and harms. The approach is unique in integrating how law, economics, and information studies conceptualise information. INFO-LEG will theoretically and empirically explore external and internal conceptual boundaries of information and produce a multidisciplinary taxonomy of information. The notions from this taxonomy will be assessed on their suitability to substitute PII as new organising notions for legal protection against information-induced harms.The multidisciplinary conceptualisation of information will impact scholarships studying how other areas of law regulate information in digital age: intellectual property (drawing borders of rights in information objects); constitutional law (if data is protected speech); telecommunication and cybercrime. Ámbito científico natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitydata protectionsocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssocial scienceslawconstitutional lawnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing Palabras clave Privacy theory data protection privacy harms data processing data economy legal protection information law information theory information economics information goods institutional economics Programa(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Tema(s) ERC-2016-STG - ERC Starting Grant Convocatoria de propuestas ERC-2016-STG Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoria Régimen de financiación ERC-STG - Starting Grant Institución de acogida UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT Aportación neta de la UEn € 557 858,69 Dirección HEIDELBERGLAAN 8 3584 CS Utrecht Países Bajos Ver en el mapa Región West-Nederland Utrecht Utrecht Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Participación en los programas de I+D de la UE Opens in new window Red de colaboración de HORIZON Opens in new window Coste total € 557 858,69 Beneficiarios (2) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación neta de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT Países Bajos Aportación neta de la UEn € 557 858,69 Dirección HEIDELBERGLAAN 8 3584 CS Utrecht Ver en el mapa Región West-Nederland Utrecht Utrecht Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Participación en los programas de I+D de la UE Opens in new window Red de colaboración de HORIZON Opens in new window Coste total € 557 858,69 TILBURG UNIVERSITY- UNIVERSITEIT VAN TILBURG La participación finalizó Países Bajos Aportación neta de la UEn € 941 791,31 Dirección WARANDELAAN 2 5037 AB Tilburg Ver en el mapa Región Zuid-Nederland Noord-Brabant Midden-Noord-Brabant Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Participación en los programas de I+D de la UE Opens in new window Red de colaboración de HORIZON Opens in new window Coste total € 941 791,31
