Data and Territory. The Impact of the “Local” in the Regulation of Digital Technologies and Algorithmic Decision-Making

This paper deals with the tension between digital technologies, which are unterritorial by nature, and regulatory patterns which are inherently local. Sometimes this results in an interesting hybridisation of regulatory models and/or operational solutions; in other instances, the clash takes the form of a regulatory conflict (as it happened in the field of electronic mass surveillance). With the aim of illustrating the way in which similar technologies tend to be embedded into different institutional packages, I will provide an analysis of scoring evaluations and automated decision-making having legal effects on the personal sphere.