Purpose limitation

Abstract

The global networked society is rapidly turning into a data-driven society in which personal data is collected, re-used and repurposed by automated means at a fast pace. This development enables data-driven surveillance that is based on big data and personal data profiling, and imposes challenges to democracy, the Rule of Law and the safeguarding of human rights and civil liberties, most prominently to the right to privacy and the protection of personal data. One of the core principles of European data protection regulation is the purpose limitation principle that demands that data is processed for priorly specified, specific and legitimate purposes and is not subsequently processed for any incompatible purposes that the ones that were specified.