My Data = Your Data? How the EU Data Act May Influence IoT and Cloud Offerings in the European Union and Beyond

In an article authored for TechNative, Kristina Ehle and Sana Ashcroft discuss the EU Data Act and how it might influence Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies across the EU and beyond.

“The Commission of the European Union has acknowledged the potential that data-driven innovations, such as IoT solutions, create for the EU single market, and has outlined the EU’s ambition to ‘become a leading role model for a society empowered by data to make better decisions in business and the public sector’ in its European strategy for data published in February 2020. As part of this strategy, in February 2022, the Commission published its proposal for a Data Act, which is the second main proposal following the Data Governance Act (DGA). Like the DGA, the draft Data Act is meant to complement the existing legal framework for the EU data economy, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on personal data, the ePrivacy Directive, which regulates data stored in and accessed from terminal devices, the Free Flow of Non-Personal Data Regulation, which ensures that non-personal data can be stored, processed, and transferred anywhere within the EU and introduced self-regulatory codes of conduct for cloud switching, and the Open Data Directive.”

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