Preface 1. Introduction: Exploring the Bounderies of Big Data Part I Technological Perspectives on Big Data 2. Sustainable Harvesting of the Big Data Potentia 3. Cryptology and Privacy in the Context of Big Data Part II Empirical Perspectives on Big Data 4. Policing, Big Data and the Commodification of Security 5. Pre-emptive Big Data Surveillance and its (Dis)Empowering Consequences: the Case of Predictive Policing Part III Legal Perspectives on Big Data 6. Predictive Profiling and its Legal Limits: Effectiveness Gone Forever? Part IV Regulatory Perspectives on Big Data 7. The Individual in the Big Data Era: Moving towards an Agent-Based Privacy paradigm 8. Privacy Protection in the Era of 'Big Data': Regulatory Challenges and Social Assessments Part V International Perspectives on Big Data 9. From Collection to Use in Privacy Regulation? A Forward-Looking Comparison of European and US Frameworks for Personal Data Processing 10. Big Data and Informational Self-Determination. Regulative Approaches in Germany: the Case of Police and Intelligence Agencies About the authors