Data Altruism: How the EU is Screwing Up a Good Idea
Berlin: Algorithm Watch (2021), 8 pp.
Series: Discussion Paper, 1
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"The EU dreams of a “common European data space”. Data protection is and remains the elephant in this data room. So long as the anti-processing straitjacket of the GDPR is not loosened even a little for altruistic purposes, there will be little hope for data innovations from Europe. In any case, the EU’s bureaucratic ideas threaten to stifle any altruism." (Conclusion)
1 What is Data Altruism? 3
2 What The EU Could Have Done, 4
3 What The EU Does Instead, 5
4 Analysis: The DGA's Rocky Relationship to the GDPR, 6
5 Collateral Damage, 7
6 Conclusion, 7
2 What The EU Could Have Done, 4
3 What The EU Does Instead, 5
4 Analysis: The DGA's Rocky Relationship to the GDPR, 6
5 Collateral Damage, 7
6 Conclusion, 7
