Data economy; Data marketplaces; Data sharing; Data sovereignty; Meta-platforms
Abstract :
[en] In the data economy, data sovereignty is often conceptualized as data providers’ ability to control their shared data. While control is essential, the current literature overlooks how this facet interrelates with other sovereignty facets and contextual conditions. Drawing from social contract theory and insights from 31 expert interviews, we propose a data sovereignty conceptual framework encompassing protection, participation, and provision facets. The protection facets establish data sharing foundations by emphasizing baseline rights, such as data ownership. Building on this foundation, the participation facet, through responsibility divisions, steers the provision facets. Provision comprises facets such as control, security, and compliance mechanisms, thus ensuring that foundational rights are preserved during and after data sharing. Contextual conditions (data type, organizational size, and business data sharing setting) determine the level of difficulty in realizing sovereignty facets. For instance, if personal data is shared, privacy becomes a relevant protection facet, leading to challenges of ownership between data providers and data subjects, compliance demands, and control enforcement. Our novel conceptualization paves the way for coherent and comprehensive theory development concerning data sovereignty as a complex, multi-faceted construct.
Research center :
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > FINATRAX - Digital Financial Services and Cross-organizational Digital Transformations
Disciplines :
Management information systems Computer science
Author, co-author :
ABBAS, Antragama Ewa ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > FINATRAX ; Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
van Velzen, Thomas; Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Ofe, Hosea; School of Information Technology, Department of Intelligent Systems and Digital Design, Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden
van de Kaa, Geerten; Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Zuiderwijk, Anneke; Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
de Reuver, Mark; Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Beyond control over data: Conceptualizing data sovereignty from a social contract perspective
Publication date :
March 2024
Journal title :
Electronic Markets
ISSN :
1019-6781
eISSN :
1422-8890
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Special issue title :
Data Economy in a Globalized World, Opportunities and Challenges for Public and Private Organizations
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under Grant Agreement no 871481 – Trusted Secure Data Sharing Space (TRUSTS), from the H2020-ICT-2018-20/H2020-ICT-2019-2 Call.
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