The course aims to offer an introduction to the disciplines that govern the production, control and circulation of personal and non-personal data in European and comparative law. It aims to overcome the traditional disciplinary barriers and illustrate how public law and private law define systems of governance of data as crucial assets for the information society. Among the most relevant topics, the course will deal with the relationship between data and territory, data as economic resources, data as the object of fundamental rights, data in the IoT and artificial intelligence, data and digital platforms.