Introduction
Debates on big data, data-related situations and international developments have increased in recent years. At the European level, the European Commission has created a subunit within its Directorate-General for Justice to study and monitor the big data phenomenon and its possible impact on legislative matters. The Directorate-General for Justice is one of the main departments of the European Commission, specializing in promoting justice and citizenship policies and protecting fundamental rights. The Directorate is in charge of the justice portfolio and proposes legislative documents in relation to four areas: civil justice, criminal justice, fundamental rights and union citizenship, and equality. The justice portfolio is relatively new; it was only created in 2010 under the leadership of the President José Manuel Barroso. Previously, it was part of the former Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security which was split into two departments, the...
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Valentini, C. (2017). European Commission: Directorate-General for Justice (Data Protection Division). In: Schintler, L., McNeely, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_88-1
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