THE BIG DATA CHALLENGE: THE EFFECTIVE EXERCISE OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FREEDOMS

My research project: to investigate if and how big data are able to influence the exercise of political and economic rights. My objectives: to consider if the increased knowledge of the data is the effective aim of its opening to the public (see G. De Minico, Gli Open data: una politica costituzionale necessaria, in http://www.forumcostituzionale.it/wordpress/images/stories/pdf/documenti_forum/paper/0483_deminico.pdf 2012 ). Investigation on the final aim of the knowledge: is it the premise for a conscious exercise of economic and political rights? The second part of my project: to explore the following issues. Does the typology of political rights maintain its structure and therefore its legal status when its playing field changes? The third part of my project: the open data as a pillar of economic freedoms. Which are the necessary conditions so that the big data become Super Data available to be developed by everyone? What could the antitrust regulation do to achieve this final aim? Looking ahead: I think that the two pillars, political rights and economic freedoms, have a common base in both constitutional values of political representation and substantial equality. This is my thesis that I intend to investigate during my period of research at the Max Planck Institute under the direction of prof. Josef Drexl. For details about my scientific profile see: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Yzu6cZe9k8RE9qZVBEUTNhZUU/view