LSTS' Onntje Hinrichs has recently seen an article published in the journal of European Consumer and market law. Titled 'Consumer Law and the Regulation of the Free Flow of Data: Upsetting the Balance of the European Data Protection Framework' - the article looks at how regulation of data is now spread over various legal disciplines as the free flow of data and the creation of a ‘genuine single market for data’ have become key concerns in EU policy.
https://kluwerlawonline.com/journalarticle/Journal+of+European+Consumer+and+Market+Law/13.2/EuCML2024010 The free flow of (personal) data has traditionally been regu-lated as part of the dual purpose of the European dataprotection framework. However, with the advent of Big Dataand hopes attached to data-driven innovation, the free flowof data and the creation of a ‘genuine single market for data’have become key concerns in EU policy.1Today, the regula-tion of data is thus spread over various l