Some Reflections on 'Datafication': Data Governance and Legal Challenges
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https://doi.org/10.18662/eljpa/7.1/118Keywords:
Data governance, legal challenges, high-value data, business asset, data innovation EU Data Strategy, data protection.Abstract
Data is considered to be the new fuel for a business growth. By the Data Strategy, the EU made a big step in designing a vision of how data governance can be integrated in organizations’ management and activity, in governments’ systems and, ultimately, in people’s (digital) life. Translating data into competitive business outcomes through digital innovation while ensuring the protection and security of individuals' (non-) personal information raises ethical and legal questions that we need to prepare to answer.
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