This essay focuses on the law of confidential information. If the only original element is the arrangement, someone who takes all the data and arranges it differently

the law of confidential information

 Digital Millennium Copyright individual data may not be protectable under copyright law, copyright law does recognize the possibility that a compilation of data (including a data set) could be an original expression of that data. This means that many compilations of data could be protected under copyright. However, to infringe such a copyright, there would have to be a substantial taking of the original expression — in other words, of the selection or arrangement. If the only original element is the arrangement, someone who takes all the data and arranges it differently will not have infringed copyright. This means that copyright in any compilation of data, as well as its scope.

Another form of protection for data is find in the law of confidential information. Information that is keep confidential can be protect in law, although the basis for such protection is not property rights. Rather, the law protects the relationships that give rise to obligations of confidentiality. Information assets that can be protect as confidential information include customer lists, trade and commercial secrets, recipes, formulae and inventions. Algorithms can also be protect as confidential information, as can data assets.

There are many instances in which there may be a public interest . It is in either the disclosure of confidential information. This  or, at least, in government oversight or review of such information. In the big data and AI context, these may include instances where it becomes necessary to understand what data is being use.