ABSTRACT
Reconsideration of the current contours of freedom of expression is necessitated not only by the advent of new media, but also by their entering a different context.
It has been emphasised how data and information have acquired a pre-eminent position in modern society, becoming the most valuable strategic and economic asset,272 putting expression of ideas in the shade, or rather, specifying its content. But data are only one aspect, or component, of that much wider process that we label ‘knowledge’.273
