Freyja van den Boom is PhD candidate at Bournemouth University and a Research Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. Her research focusses on the legal and ethical aspects of Big Data in the context of connected cars and telematics insurance. She obtained her LLM from Tilburg University and MSc from Lund University, and before joining Bournemouth University worked on several European funded research projects on privacy and intellectual property including on text and datamining and the PSI Directive.