I ponder the changes which a data-driven state may force on the relationship between rights and the common good. At present, the principles of public law can be seen to promote both rights and the common good. The pressures which the data-driven state will place on some public law doctrines, however, mean that this reciprocity is no longer assured.
By promoting the common good, public law may find itself having to sideline individual rights. If instead it plumps for rights, the law may find it must relent on its commitment to the common good.