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

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.

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.