Often collected data sets contain more personal information than needed for a certain purpose. According to privacy laws and regulations the personal data in a data set should be minimized only to the data that are required and allowed for a chosen (legitimate) data usage. Statistical Disclosure Control …

A promising vehicle for a smart government is the exploitation of the large amount of heterogeneous data that becomes available increasingly. The field of Big Data (BD) responds to this promise by leveraging the potentials of such data. In this paper, a systematic approach is adopted to argue why the …

Organizations collect a vast amount of data of different types, from various sources, and through different channels. Primarily, these data are used by these organizations to facilitate their core business processes. However, today we witness a growing tendency to use these data for other purposes than …

Protecting personal data is a key requirement for properly sharing and opening data. With growing concerns regarding privacy, it is important to ensure that the personal data of individuals is not compromised or made public in Open Data initiatives. For the most part, the personal data protection fields …

Het verbeteren van de toegang tot overheidsinformatie, transparant zijn over het handelen en verantwoording aan de samenleving afleggen, zijn belangrijke pijlers voor de Nederlandse overheid. Hier wordt concreet invulling aan gegeven door steeds meer (open) data proactief publiek beschikbaar te stellen. …

In the operational systems of the Dutch Public Prosecution Service, data about criminal cases are registered. This information is used to generate crime statistics or other management information as input for policymaking. A key element for these statistics is the crime type of a case, which is normally …

The IoT is a revolutionary development for both society and governments. In this chapter opportunities and threats of the IoT are discussed. Linking technological, societal, economic, and policy-oriented aspects of the IoT, this chapter introduces a conceptual framework to map and analyze the factors …