Robert Herian is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Open University. His research covers intersections of law, technology, data, and he is also the author of Regulating Blockchain: Critical Perspectives in Law and Technology, Routledge 2018.

This book explores the phenomenon of data - big and small - in the contemporary digital, informatic and legal-bureaucratic context.

Introduction. 1. Beautiful machines and bureaucratic dreams. 2. Somewhere between privacy and protection. 3. Being in Data. 4. Data With Subject. 5. Proximate data - a conclusion. Index.