The Legal Protection of Data and Databases

The Legal Protection of Data and Databases
Anselm Kamperman Sanders

ISBN 9789041198471
Kluwer Law International

The data mining industry is growing in importance. In the electronic environment information is not just a means to do business, it is a business commodity in itself. Electronic commerce and the new economy are starting to have an increasing impact on public policy and human interaction. To an increasing extent value to the economy is represented by the accumulated knowledge present in the organization.2 Information, the currency of the new economy, has the capacity to generate exponentially growing new amounts of information.