Data trusts

European Data Protection Law Review, 6(4), 484-491

2020

Themes: Data trusts, Privacy

Category: Journal article, Open access

Recent years have seen the burgeoning of a literature on data trusts, and the unwary might therefore be led to believe that it is an idea whose time has come. Unfortunately, the ideas of the various authors who have contributed to this literature, who include the present author, haven’t always coincided, and have been aimed at different problems at different levels of detail and hand-waving. We might therefore say more accurately that ‘data trust’ is a brand whose time has come, which in itself is a not uninteresting phenomenon, worthy of consideration.

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