Procedural law for the data-driven society

Large-scale data applications are becoming an increasingly integralpart of how both public and private sector organisations function.The transition towards a data-driven society means that processeswithin organisations will be organised structurally differently thanthey used to be and that decision-making will be based onprofiles and algorithms more often than not. This change requiresseveral adjustments to the legal regime, both to make the bestpossible use of the opportunities this change has to offer and tolay down safeguards against dangers and risks. To facilitate thisprocess, a number of changes is needed to the current,individual-centred legal paradigm, such as laying down aprotective regime for non-personal data, providing protection topublic interests and societal harms and granting a bigger role forrepresentative and collective actions and public interest litigation.