Bibliografie

Explores a concept central to modern science and society, from thermodynamics and DNA to our use of the mobile phone and the Internet - Considers concepts such as 'Infoglut' (too much information to process) and the emergence of an information society - Addresses the meaning and value of information in science, sociology, and philosophy - Raises the broader social and ethical issues relating to privacy, accessibility, and ownership of information

Philosophy of Information (PI): The philosophical field concerned with the critical investigation of the conceptual nature and basic principles of information, including its dynamics, utilisation and sciences.

Information is notoriously a polymorphic phenomenon and a polysemantic concept so, as an explicandum, it can be associated with several explanations, depending on the level of abstraction adopted and the cluster of requirements and desiderata orientating a theory. The reader may wish to keep this in mind while reading this article, where some schematic simplifications and interpretative decisions will be inevitable.

Semantic Capital is any content that can enhance someone’s power to give meaning to and make sense of (semanticise) something. So one could say that archives are semantic capital.

This report is issued at a time when the data protection community is preparing for the application of the long-awaited GDPR. It cannot and does not seek to override the GDPR, to regulate present data protection practices by proposing additional rules. This is adequately and appropriately accomplished by the new regulation. This report proposes concepts and arguments to support and advance data protection as a project of European values. It describes the way traditional concepts of value may be rethought, re-articulated and re-purposed in order to assure the continuity of legitimate practices and anticipate an  unseen future. This task can, by way of conclusion, be condensed into five significant ‘directions’ of thought and innovation. 1. The dignity of the person remains inviolable in the digital age  Life in the digital age is close to a confrontation with the basic principle of personhood: dignity. Digital experience reshapes our understanding of personal  identity, human experience and social  interactions. Digital life will need to be  compatible with the inviolable nature of  human dignity. 2.  Personhood and personal data are inseparable from one another  Personhood - understanding oneself as  a person endowed with moral qualities,  rights and responsibilities - is inseparable  from the information produced by, and  pertaining to that person. 3.  Digital technologies risk weakening the foundation of democratic governance The freedom of choice of each person is  a fundamental principle of democratic  self-governance. Automated, big data-based interaction with political decision-making may be incompatible with  democratic processes. 4.  Digitised data processing risks fostering new forms of discrimination  Profiling is part of everyday cognition and  judgment. Digitally generated profiles  based on very large quantities of data  are powerful and increasingly unaccountable. 5. Data commoditisation risks shifting  value from persons to personal data  The market value of personal data is not  intrinsic but stems from its relationship to  the person or persons who give rise to it. Ethical tensions can arise where human  value and market value intersect.

Er staan een vijftal elementen centraal Autonomy (autonomie, altijd de mogelijkheid om te besluiten en in te grijpen) Beneficence (het goede doen) Fairness (eerlijk) Non-maleficence (niet schadelijk) Explicability (Enabling the other principles of autonomy, beneficence, fairness, justice and non-maleficence through intelligibility and accountability.)