Jusletter IT

The legal system is lagging behind technological developments. This truism of more than twenty years shows up when trying to catch the basic legal nature of big data. Information has a economic value, but no allocation in the law. The legal system will fail to grip big data by way of data protection law, all the more with the toothless paper tiger which many data protection laws in fact are, among them certainly that of Switzerland. Information as an asset would need to have a legal owner, who could use it like tangible property. The article analyses this line of thought.