We witness a new industrial revolution driven by digital data, computation and automation. Human activities, industrial processes and research, lead to a data collection and processing on an unprecedented scale, spurring new products and services as well as new business processes and scientific...

The extensive collection and further processing of personal information in the context of big data analytics has given rise to serious privacy concerns, especially relating to wide scale electronic surveillance, profiling, and disclosure of private data. In order to allow for all the benefits of...