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HomeSharing data (anti-)competitively will European data holders need to change their ways under the proposed new data legislation?
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In the digital economy, data has been referred to as the ‘new gold’ for a long time, and for good reasons. When Vice-President of the European Commission for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes used this analogy in 2011, the digital economy was already growing rapidly, and the first business giants had already established some degree of dominance in cloud computing and other online services. It was becoming clear that more and more markets were facing so-called network effects: the more data a company could hold, the better and more efficiently it could work. A company that could increase the volume and quality of its data continuously and more quickly than its competitors would be able to provide better services to its customers, thus extending its market leadership. As a corollary, it became increasingly clear that the ability to collect and retain exclusive control over data could also be used as a market control mechanism. If a competitor or an innovator would require access to certain data to build or expand its own services, and this data would only be accessible with the cooperation of the data holder, then that data holder could in principle exercise significant influence over its market. Its competitors would not be able to offer their services, and innovators would not be able to bring their new ideas to fruition, outside of the terms that the data holder would be willing to support.
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- Themes: Information technology and telecommunications , Law and justice
- Subject: big data , cloud computing , competition law , data protection , digital economy , digital single market
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| ISSN | ISBN 978-92-78-43383-3 | DOI 10.2830/913446 | Catalogue number OA-08-22-326-EN-N |
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