This open access book presents the foundations of the Big Data research and innovation ecosystem and the associated enablers that facilitate delivering value from data for business and society. It provides insights into the key elements for research and innovation, technical architectures,...

In its Communication "Building a European data economy" the EU Commission discusses the introduction of a new exclusive property right on data ("data producer right") for non-personal (or anonymised) machine-generated data, and mandatory access rights to privately held data for achieving more...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Insights into Privacy Research -- Chapter 3. Citizen Privacy Profile Framework -- Chapter 4. Fuzzy-based Privacy Settings Recommender System -- Chapter 5. Conclusions.