Enabling the new economic actor: data protection, the digital economy, and the Databox
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Journal Article
Abstract
This paper offers a sociological perspective on data protection regulation and its relevance to design. From this perspective, proposed regulation in Europe and the USA seeks to create a new economic actor—the consumer as personal data trader—through new legal frameworks that shift the locus of agency and control in data processing towards the individual consumer or “data subject”. The sociological perspective on proposed data regulation recognises the reflexive relationship between law and the social order, and the commensurate needs to balance the demand for compliance with the design of computational tools that enable this new economic actor. We present the Databox model as a means of providing data protection and allowing the individual to exploit personal data to become an active player in the emerging data economy.
Date Issued
2016-08-02
Date Acceptance
2016-07-26
Citation
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2016, 20 (6), pp.947-957
ISSN
0949-2054
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Start Page
947
End Page
957
Journal / Book Title
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Volume
20
Issue
6
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© The Author(s) 2016
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This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Information Systems
Telecommunications
Computer Science
Privacy
Personal data regulation
Sociology
Digital economy
Databox
Publication Status
Published