Who needs stories if you can get the data? ISPs in the era of big number crunching

Philosophy and Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 371-390

  Hildebrandt, Mireille ^a,b,c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ambient Law; Data mining; Data retention; Deep packet inspection; ISPs; Number crunching; Ontological friction; Privacy; The rule of law

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856442812     PISSN: 22105433     EISSN: 22105441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13347-011-0041-8     Document Type: Article

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