Personal data’s ever-expanding scope in smart environments and possible path(s) for regulating emerging digital technologies

Abstract

The EU debate—both at policy and academic level— around the notion of personal data has been a steadily ongoing one. Beyond the differences with the narrower US-based notion of PII (personally identifiable information), discussions have taken place at various levels. At the policy level, one can think of the shift from the narrower version of biographical information that existed in a number of national statutes to the broader, current notion of personal data as enshrined in the EU Key Points