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tilburg law review 20 (2015) 3-4
Daniel Keys Moran
Editor’s Foreword
You can have data without information, but you cannot have information
without data.
, Internet, social networks, smartphone, cloud computing, big data – keywords
that are combined in this Tilburg Law Review Special Issue with phrases and
keywords such as ‘ght against terrorism’, ‘data protection’, ‘human rights’, and
‘surveillance’.
We live in a fast-developing world. In this world much can change with just
one ‘click’. The threats and benets of the era of ‘big data’ do not hide in the
quantity of data that is surrounding us but rather in the use of these data. This
has also given a new meaning to the word terrorism. The heavily debated con-
cept of terrorism has become a stretched elastic band in the playground of
legal interpretation.
The Tilburg Law Review serves as a forum for leading, peer-reviewed schol-
arship debating on issues of international and European law. Therefore, I am
happy to present you the current and very topical Special Issue on ‘Privacy and
National Security in the Digital Age’. What should prevail – personal data pro-
tection or prevention of terrorism? I hope that in this Tilburg Law Review
Special Issue you will nd more information that helps you to frame an answer
to this question. Perhaps you will even discover more questions and research
gaps concerning this fast-developing issue.
The topic of counter-terrorism,  development, and data protection is a
eld that urges immediate scholarly discussion. Therefore, for the launching of
this Special Issue, the Tilburg Law Review - in cooperation with Tilburg Law
School and the Research Master in Law program - will host a seminar on the
‘Privacy and National Security in the Digital Age’. With this seminar we aim to
foster the scholarly discussions in this eld even more. The seminar will take
place in Tilburg in March 2015. For more information please contact the Tilburg
Law Review.
The current Tilburg Law Review Special Issue that you are holding in your
hand (or reading digitally) is a fruit of teamwork of many people. Therefore,
I would like to thank our guest-editor Federico Fabbrini, without whose drive
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and dedication this Tilburg Law Review Special Issue on data protection and
counter-terrorism would not have been possible. Furthermore, I highly appre-
ciate the fast and passionate work of the Tilburg Law Review Editors and
Board, and most of all, the work of the Managing Executive Editor of the
Tilburg Law Review – Eva van Vugt.
I hope that you enjoy reading this issue!
Ave-Geidi Jallai
Editor-in-Chief
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