Comparing definitions of data and information in data protection law and machine learning: A useful way forward to meaningfully regulate algorithms? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The notion of information is central to data protection law, and to algorithms/machine learning. This centrality gives the impressions that algorithms are just yet another data processing operation to be regulated. A more careful analysis reveals a number of issues. The notion of personal data is notoriously under-defined, and attempts at clarification from an information theory perspective are also equivocal. The paper therefore attempts a ...