Part II Normative Concepts of Information Management

The digital revolution is transforming society, the economy and government in many ways and profoundly alters the way in which we handle data and information. Nowadays, information is collected, stored and processed faster than ever before through the use of electronic tools. The storage capacity for digital information is continually increasing, whereas the costs for storage media are simultaneously shrinking. The following chapter examines how the legal system attempts to regulate information management in the face of the exponentially growing amount of digital data and seeks to illuminate the assumptions that underlie such regulatory efforts. In this way, we reveal the interplay between law and “remembering and forgetting” and the extent to which the law in one national jurisdiction regulates these processes.