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Data Governance Issues in Current Policy Proposals

11th March 2022 @ 4:00 PM

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Data Governance Issues in Current Policy Proposals

Speaker

Prof. Wolfgang Kerber

Professor of Economics at University of Marburg (Germany)

Wolfgang Kerber is Professor of Economics at University of Marburg (Germany) since 1997. He was, inter alia, Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence) and Hauser Global Fellow at NYU Law School. His current main field of research are regulatory problems of the digital economy (competition, data governance, and privacy). His most recent publications are about digital markets and privacy; interoperability; competition policy in digital economy; data governance, data rights, data access, data portability, and data trustees; access to in-vehicle data in connected cars; Digital Markets Act; German Facebook case in competition law; interplay between competition law and data protection law.

Abstract

The proposals of the "Data Governance Act", "Digital Markets Act", and the recently published "Data Act" are far-reaching legislative projects in the EU that deal with data access, data sharing, and data portability issues, especially regarding non-personal data. Particularly interesting is the new "Data Act" proposal that deals with so far unregulated issues of the data that are generated by IoT devices. This lecture will give an overview about data-related aspects of these policy proposals with a particular focus on a first preliminary analysis of the "Data Act" with respect to the governance of IoT data (using the example of the data of connected cars).

Speaker

Prof Srijoni Sen

Faculty at National Law School

After graduating from NLSIU in 2009, Srijoni Sen began her career in McKinsey & Co. as a Business Analyst before completing a Masters degree in Law at Columbia University, where she also studied at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). She was subsequently a founding team member of the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy where she led the Public Law team, and also created and ran an open resource digitising and explaining Indian laws.Her areas of interest include law, policy and technology, and regulatory governance.

Abstract

The talk will trace recent developments around data governance in India, looking at legal, regulatory and rights-based issues raised in the attempts at regulation of both personal and non-personal data in recent years. The questions to be looked at will be the understanding of various categories of data as adopted in policy papers and legislation; the introduction of the proposed regulatory framework into the existing data governance landscape, and finally, the ways in which greater agency and respect for individual and community rights can be incorporated into the existing framework.