Non personal data: nature and value

Abstract

In recent years, technological progress in IT applications produced new systems able to provide accurate analysis and information never experienced before. These systems are powered by data collected from several interconnected sources. Information collected by databases mining process has a very great value: data can return extremely in-depth description of a phenomenon, a person or a community. Specifically, this paper focuses on non-personal data that is data generated by Internet of Things-IoT applications both in public and in private sectors. Aspects the paper investigates have gained momentum in recent years together with related legal, economic and technological questions arisen. In order to correctly found discussion, it is necessary to investigate nature of these data and legal reasons for their protection, as well as the economic and market models for their valorisation.