Roll the data
Brussels has presented a new regulation for data governance in the EU. The Commission rightly wants to increase trust in data sharing between organisations and give European citizens more control.
The European Commission has proposed new rules for data governance in the European Union (EU). Called the Data Governance Act, the regulation “will facilitate data sharing” across the bloc and between sectors of the economy, “increasing citizens’ control and trust” and establishing “a model” for how big technology companies handle data.
It is not an isolated proposal. New public policies on data and the digital economy are being drawn up. The Commission wants to increase trust in data sharing between organisations, give Europeans more control, create the conditions for new platforms to emerge and “make it easier to reuse some data held by the public sector”, for example in research into rare diseases.
AI translation from the Portuguese. First published in ECO on 26 November 2020.