Talk@Plamadiso

Excited to be giving a PLAMADISO (Platforms, Markets, and the Digital Society) online talk next Thursday 16 April at 2 pm CET. I’ll be presenting our paper Neutrality and Competitiveness of Data Intermediaries under the DGA: Reality Strikes Back together with my colleague Tervel Bobev, who is a PhD researcher at KU Leuven CiTiP – imec, working on legal automation, regtech, and data sharing in Industry 4.0 and European data spaces, and co-author of this paper.

This interesting event is hosted by the Research Group on the Digital Economy, Internet Ecosystem, and Internet Policy at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. Huge thanks to Dr. Volker Stolker for the kind invitation. It is always a pleasure to contribute to this thriving community.

Register to the talk by e-mail through this link.

Abstract: In this talk, we examine whether the Data Governance Act (DGA) regime on data intermediation services is adequate to achieve its intended purpose of fostering trust, neutrality, and sustainability in data sharing. We review the state of the art in data intermediation technologies in both industry and academia and discuss its interplay with the regulation. We identify friction points with existing data markets and anticipate challenges in emerging contexts, such as intermediaries delivering machine learning models or using confidential computing techniques. Finally, we explore potential amendments to, or interpretations of, the DGA required to promote a data intermediation model that is both economically viable and neutral.