Digital technologies offer endless opportunities for data collection and analysis and this new reality brings about new business and legal challenges that have not been studied before. How do you find a middle course between company interests, user rights and demands for innovation development? What is regulatory specifics in this sector and what should legislators pay attention to?

Restricting data access and transfer hurts innovations based on Big Data processing. Where does the solution lie, and can we speak about the principle of equal access to the open data on the Internet? Where is the boundary between personal data, private life and public information? Session participants will discuss industry-specific cases in the areas of traffic management, public security, medical check-ups and research.