On Wednesday 6 April, MEPs meeting in Strasbourg validated (501 votes in favour, 12 against, 40 abstentions) the interinstitutional agreement reached on 30 November last year on data governance (the DGA) (see EUROPE B12847A12).
“This is the start of a paradigm shift. In the United States, the private sector has a stranglehold on data. In China, data is practically the property of the state. With this text, the EU has another approach that puts the user and the citizen at the...