SCRIBE Legal Workshop 2016 : To Score and to Protect? Credit Risk Analysis using Big and Open Data meets Privacy

"Recent UK legislation aims to stimulate innovation and competition in lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through recourse to techniques powered by Big Data and Open Data, but in so doing presents serious challenges to essential principles and individual rights enshrined in privacy and data protection law just as the latter is gathering unprecedented momentum in courts and on statute books across the EU."