Personal data protection in the age of mass surveillance

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Hakkala, Antti^{a; *} | Koskinen, Jani^b

Affiliations: [a] Department of Computing, University of Turku, Finland. E-mail: ajahak@utu.fi | [b] Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland. E-mail: jasiko@utu.fi

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: ajahak@utu.fi.

Abstract: We present a solution to data ownership in the surveillance age in the form of an ethically sustainable framework for managing personal and person-derived data. This framework is based on the concept of Datenherrschaft – mastery over data that all natural persons should have on data they themselves produce or is derived thereof. We give numerous examples and tie cases to robust ethical analysis, and also discuss technological dimensions.

Keywords: Surveillance, Datenherrschaft

DOI: 10.3233/JCS-200033

Journal: Journal of Computer Security, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 265-289, 2022